Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 04:43:36 EST


On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice
> > 0 pinned to CPU0, and one at nice 19 pinned to CPU1 produced the
> > latencies below for nice -5 Xorg. Didn't kill the box though.
> >
> > se.wait_max : 10.068169
> > se.wait_max : 7.465334
> > se.wait_max : 135.501816
> > se.wait_max : 0.884483
> > se.wait_max : 144.218955
> > se.wait_max : 128.578376
> > se.wait_max : 93.975768
> > se.wait_max : 4.965965
> > se.wait_max : 113.655533
> > se.wait_max : 4.301075
> >
> > sched_debug (attached) is.. strange.

Mike,
Do you have FAIR_USER_SCHED turned on as well? Can you send me
your .config pls?

Also how do you check se.wait_max?

> Disabling CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED fixed both. Latencies of up to 336ms
> hit me during the recompile (make -j3), with nothing else running.
> Since reboot, latencies are, so far, very very nice. I'm leaving it
> disabled for now.

--
Regards,
vatsa
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