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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Matheos Worku <Matheos.Worku@Sun.COM>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:31:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EA8876.5000104@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EA7DE8.9070203@sun.com>

Matheos Worku wrote:
> All,
> 
> While running iperf (transmit) on NIU driver I get several soft lockup 
> errors.  I have seen similar soft lockup errors on kernels 2.6.18 and 
> later (with other 10G NIC drivers with LSO disabled) but it is more 
> frequent/pronounced on 2.6.24 kernel.  oprofile is not giving  much clue 
> as where the cpus are spending time (atleast doesn't indicate any thing 
> abnormal in the driver(s)). 

Is oprofile running on an AMD processor able to profile where/when 
interrupts are disabled?  If not there could be a fair bit missing from 
the profile.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-26 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-26 16:46 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X Matheos Worku
2008-03-26 17:31 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-03-26 20:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-26 20:26   ` Matheos Worku
2008-03-26 21:46     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-26 21:53       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-27 10:33     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-27 23:18       ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-03-27 23:45         ` Matheos Worku
2008-03-28  0:02           ` David Miller
2008-03-28  0:19             ` Matheos Worku
2008-03-28  0:34               ` David Miller
2008-03-28  1:22                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28  1:38                   ` David Miller
2008-03-28 10:29                     ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 10:56                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 11:06                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 11:29                           ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 12:19                             ` jamal
2008-03-28 13:26                               ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 14:07                                 ` jamal
2008-03-28 14:12                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 23:25                             ` David Miller
2008-03-28 14:09                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28  1:58                   ` Matheos Worku
2008-03-28 10:33                     ` jamal
2008-03-28 17:00                       ` Matheos Worku
2008-03-28 10:38                     ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 13:38                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-28 13:53                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 14:39                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-28 14:56                             ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-28 15:29                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-28 15:47                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-29  1:06                                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-29  9:11                                   ` Jarek Poplawski

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