From: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
fabio.comolli@gmail.com
Subject: Disregard: was Re: large intermittent latency spike 2.6.28 (and 2.6.27.10), bisect commit ca7e716c7833aeaeb8fedd6d004c5f5d5e14d325 -> Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:52:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <495B40C1.4080305@jaysonking.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <495A96FF.1000200@jaysonking.com>
> I noticed large latency spikes in 2.6.28 (and 2.6.27.10) which would
> make the system unresponsive for minutes at a time (alt+Fn switching
> wouldn't even work) when the system is under load. I could trigger the
> latency by running a large make -j 3. Sometimes it would trigger in a
> few seconds other times it would take a few minutes.
>
> I bisected it in 2.6.27.10 to d9a888b061f55534016d2d86a21639948312a117
> -> Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
> (ca7e716c7833aeaeb8fedd6d004c5f5d5e14d325 in 2.6.28) and reverting it
> in 2.6.28 make the latency spike go away. At least, so far no spike in
> over 24 hours.
Please disregard this. I just had a latency spike again, so this is not
the change I'm looking for... I'll need to look for what is causing it
again, apparently not only the make -j 3 I thought, and do another test.
Jayson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-30 21:47 large intermittent latency spike 2.6.28 (and 2.6.27.10), bisect commit ca7e716c7833aeaeb8fedd6d004c5f5d5e14d325 -> Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards" Jayson King
2008-12-31 8:54 ` [PATCH] sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards, take #2 Ingo Molnar
2008-12-31 18:49 ` Jayson King
2008-12-31 9:52 ` Jayson King [this message]
2008-12-31 10:41 ` Disregard: was Re: large intermittent latency spike 2.6.28 (and 2.6.27.10), bisect commit ca7e716c7833aeaeb8fedd6d004c5f5d5e14d325 -> Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards" Jayson King
2008-12-31 11:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-31 22:27 ` Jayson King
2008-12-31 22:38 ` Fabio Comolli
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