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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext3 vs. ReiserFS results (was Re: XRUN traces)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:43:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hd62yamxy.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040713175833.6ab037ef.akpm@osdl.org>

At Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:58:33 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: ALSA /usr/src/alsa-cvs-1.0.5/alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:169: XRUN: pcmC0D0p
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [dump_stack+23/32] dump_stack+0x17/0x20
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [__crc_totalram_pages+562733/3558647] snd_pcm_period_elapsed+0x2c7/0x400 [snd_pcm]
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [__crc_totalram_pages+631725/3558647] snd_emu10k1_interrupt+0x377/0x400 [snd_emu10k1]
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [handle_IRQ_event+51/96] handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0x60
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [do_IRQ+165/368] do_IRQ+0xa5/0x170
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [d_callback+29/64] d_callback+0x1d/0x40
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [rcu_do_batch+62/80] rcu_do_batch+0x3e/0x50
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [rcu_process_callbacks+150/256] rcu_process_callbacks+0x96/0x100
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [tasklet_action+68/112] tasklet_action+0x44/0x70
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [__do_softirq+131/144] __do_softirq+0x83/0x90
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [do_softirq+53/64] do_softirq+0x35/0x40
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [do_IRQ+277/368] do_IRQ+0x115/0x170
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [poll_freewait+46/80] poll_freewait+0x2e/0x50
> >  Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel:  [sys_poll+472/544] sys_poll+0x1d8/0x220
> 
> This one's going to be a problem.  It's due to RCU freeing a large number
> of dentries in one hit.

The recent patches to daemonize softirq may help?

There was a discussion on LKML (on March?) about the latency
improvement of RCU.  Rearming the tasklet fixed the latency problem
indeed.


Takashi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-14 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-13 22:38 XRUN traces Lee Revell
2004-07-13 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14  0:51   ` Ext3 vs. ReiserFS results (was Re: XRUN traces) Lee Revell
2004-07-14  0:58     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14  1:18       ` Lee Revell
2004-07-14 10:43       ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2004-07-14  6:45   ` XRUN traces Lee Revell
2004-07-14  6:56     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14 15:24       ` Lee Revell
2004-07-17  1:04       ` Lee Revell
2004-07-17  3:15         ` Lee Revell
2004-07-13 23:16 ` Lee Revell

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