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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Interrupt latency on some 945GM platforms
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:55:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyls7iq3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009141109.41596.anarsoul@gmail.com> (Vasily Khoruzhick's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:09:36 +0300")

Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com> writes:

>> Whats the clockevent in this case ("Tick Device" section of
>> /proc/timer_list). clocksource= option only changes the clocksource used
>> to maintain
>> timeofday. But, timer interrupt (clockevent) source will not change.
>> Wondering how just the clocksource change is making the diff here..
>> 
>> Also, if clocksource tsc has a higher rating than HPET. The reason
>> HPET is getting used as clocksource in the first place seems to be due
>> to TSC is not a dependable clocksource on this platform (may be it
>> stops in C3). So, I am not sure forcing it to tsc will be a good
>> thing. May be clocksource=acpi_pm is a better thing to try.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Venki
>
> I investigated it a bit and found out that single nohz=off option helps. Just 
> changing clocksource doesn't help, but it works smoothly with any clocksource 
> with nohz=off. So, it seems that something wrong with intel driver while 
> system is in tickless mode. 

It could be simply that nohz=off prevents the system from
going into lower idle states and it is related to that.

You could test this theory by running with processor.max_cstate=1

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201009132336.17310.anarsoul@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20100913134441.762001f7@jbarnes-desktop>
     [not found]   ` <201009140010.14783.anarsoul@gmail.com>
2010-09-13 21:19     ` Interrupt latency on some 945GM platforms Jesse Barnes
2010-09-13 21:41       ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-13 21:46         ` Jesse Barnes
2010-09-13 21:52           ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-13 21:59             ` Jesse Barnes
2010-09-13 22:03               ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-14  0:55                 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2010-09-14  8:09                   ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-14  9:52                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 12:29                       ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-14 22:41                         ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2010-09-15  7:07                           ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-16 15:03                           ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-16 18:07                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-16 18:30                               ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-16 18:42                                 ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-16 18:50                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-16 20:06                                     ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-24 19:39                                       ` Jesse Barnes
2010-09-24 19:48                                         ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-24 19:51                                           ` Jesse Barnes
2010-09-26 10:53                                             ` Stefan Biereigel
2010-09-27  0:46                                               ` Shaohua Li
2010-09-27  5:45                                                 ` Stefan Biereigel
2010-09-27 11:41                                                 ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-27 21:18                                               ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-25 10:25                                         ` Paolo Ornati
2010-09-17  9:02                             ` [Intel-gfx] " Simon Farnsworth
2010-09-17 16:30                               ` Jesse Barnes
2010-09-17 12:50                                 ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-21 18:26                                   ` Paolo Ornati
2010-09-21 22:56                                     ` Jesse Barnes
2010-09-22  5:57                                       ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2010-09-23 18:21                                       ` Paolo Ornati
2010-09-25 10:28                                       ` Paolo Ornati
2010-10-16 15:54                                         ` [Intel-gfx] Interrupt latency on some 945GM platforms -- and TCP/IP silent data corruption? Paolo Ornati
2010-09-24 18:41                             ` Interrupt latency on some 945GM platforms Jesse Barnes
2010-09-14  9:55                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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