Re: Horrendous Audio Stutter - current git

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri May 02 2008 - 15:38:59 EST



On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:49 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:37 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:21 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hm. I've stumbled across a regression that may be related. Can
> > > > > you please try the attached with group scheduling enabled in
> > > > > current git?
> > > >
> > > > In file included from kernel/sched.c:1902:
> > > > kernel/sched_fair.c: In function 'print_cfs_rq_tasks':
> > > > kernel/sched_fair.c:1602: error: implicit declaration of function
> > > > 'calc_delta_weight'
> > > > kernel/sched_fair.c:1603: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long
> > > > unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'int'
> > > > make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
> > > > make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> > > >
> > > > 'calc_delta_weight' or a replacement not found easily to fix it up!
> > >
> > > Oops, I have an unrelated patch in my tree which you also need.
> >
> > I see that Peter has a fix, so don't bother.
>
> Maybe not. It looks like Parag may have been seeing a combination of two
> different issues: the one that Peter fixed and one related to group
> scheduling.

There are definitely issues with that commit, but I'm not at all sure
they manifest themselves with this workload in any heavy-weight way. My
thought was only that it's negative effects could be compounded by group
scheduling.

-Mike

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