From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755695AbXGTCdM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751321AbXGTCdB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:33:01 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:56065 "EHLO posidon.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751260AbXGTCdA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:33:00 -0400 Message-ID: <46A01EC1.10008@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:32:33 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Linus Torvalds , Ian Kent , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19 References: <1184054902.12336.19.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <469512C1.6090406@tmr.com> <20070711205556.GA27266@elte.hu> <4697EC49.4070303@tmr.com> <469BE462.9030004@redhat.com> <20070716215541.GA27171@elte.hu> <1184648474.3188.33.camel@raven.themaw.net> <20070717074537.GA13539@elte.hu> <469E8821.3070700@tmr.com> <20070719143214.GA6387@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070719143214.GA6387@elte.hu> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050903090303060606000109" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050903090303060606000109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>> Does the patch below help? >> Spectacularly no! With this patch the "glitch1" script with multiple >> scrolling windows has all xterms and glxgears stop totally dead for >> ~200ms once per second. I didn't properly test anything else after >> that. > > Bill, could you try the patch below - does it fix the automount problem, > without introducing new problems? > Okay, as noted off-list, after I exported the xtime_seconds it now builds and works. However, there are a *lot* of "section mismatches" which are not reassuring. Boots, runs, glitch1 test runs reasonably smoothly. automount has not used significant CPU yet, but I don't know what triggers it, the bad behavior did not happen immediately without the patch. However, it looks very hopeful. Warnings attached to save you the trouble... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot --------------050903090303060606000109 Content-Type: text/plain; name="make01pb.des" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="make01pb.des" Script started on Thu 19 Jul 2007 05:29:08 PM EDT Common profile 1.13 lastmod 2006-01-04 22:43:25-05 No common directory available Session time 17:29:08 on 07/19/07 posidon:davidsen> time nice -10 make -j4 -s; sleep 2; exit CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CHK include/linux/compile.h CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CHK include/linux/version.h Building modules, stage 2. WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1001183): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1213fb4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rest_init' and 'kthreadd_setup') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1218786): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1218792): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc121879e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc12187aa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1214071): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_node (between 'alloc_node_mem_map' and 'zone_wait_table_init') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1214117): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_node (between 'zone_wait_table_init' and 'schedule') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc10fbaae): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem (between 'vgacon_startup' and 'vgacon_scrolldelta') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc1218eda): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') Root device is (253, 0) Setup is 11240 bytes (padded to 11264 bytes). System is 1915 kB Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready (#3) real 4m11.024s user 2m5.121s sys 0m30.952s exit Script done on Thu 19 Jul 2007 05:33:35 PM EDT --------------050903090303060606000109--