Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271700AbTG2Mtq (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271701AbTG2Mtq (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:49:46 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:27279 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271700AbTG2Mtg (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:49:36 -0400 Subject: Re: another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem From: Albert Cahalan To: Andrew Morton Cc: Albert Cahalan , zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-yoann@ifrance.com, linux-kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , vortex@scyld.com, jgarzik@pobox.com In-Reply-To: <20030728201459.78c8c7c6.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1054431962.22103.744.camel@cube> <3EDCF47A.1060605@ifrance.com> <1054681254.22103.3750.camel@cube> <3EDD8850.9060808@ifrance.com> <1058921044.943.12.camel@cube> <20030724103047.31e91a96.akpm@osdl.org> <1059097601.1220.75.camel@cube> <20030725201914.644b020c.akpm@osdl.org> <1059447325.3862.86.camel@cube> <20030728201459.78c8c7c6.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1059482410.3862.120.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 29 Jul 2003 08:40:11 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3480 Lines: 100 On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 23:14, Andrew Morton wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: > > OK, I did this. Now, in microseconds, I get: > > > > ------------------------ > > IRQ use min max > > --- -------- --- ------- > > 0 timer 40 103968 > > 1 i8042 14 1138 (was 389773) > > 2 cascade - - > > 3 - - - > > 4 serial 29 56 > > 5 uhci-hcd - - > > 6 - 690 690 > > 7 - 40 40 > > 8 - - - > > 9 - - - > > 10 - - - > > 11 eth0 73 31332 (was 1535331) > > 12 i8042 18 215 (was 102895) > > 13 - - - > > 14 ide0 7 43846 > > 15 ide1 7 12 > > ------------------------ > > > > boomerang_interrupt itself takes 4 to 59 microseconds. > > So this looks OK, yes? I suppose boomerang_interrupt itself is OK. Spending 104 ms in IRQ 0, 31 ms in IRQ 11, and 44 ms in IRQ 14 is not at all OK. I was hoping to get under 200 microseconds for everything. > (Is that instrumentation patch productisable? > Looks handly, albeit a subset of microstate accounting) Not really. I printk() when a value exceeds the saved maximum, then scan my logs for the first and last values. There's also hard-coded knowledge of my 1-GHz CPU, which lets me convert to microseconds as follows: us = (unsigned)(ns64>>3)/125u; (that lets me handle up to 32 seconds) Huh. So the minimum value is really the first value. Later values could be less, but that's not important. I suppose that true min/max via a /proc file would be pretty easy to implement. I like my 1-GHz hack. I like a TSC that measures in nanoseconds too. > > Then I switched to 2.6.0-test2. Testing more, I get the > > problem with or without SMP and with or without > > preemption. Here's a chunk of my log file: > > > > Loosing too many ticks! > > TSC cannot be used as a timesource. (Are you running with SpeedStep?) > > Falling back to a sane timesource. > > psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away. > > psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. > > > > Arrrrgh! The TSC is my only good time source! > > Arrrgh! More PS/2 problems! > > I think the lost synchronisation is the problem, would you agree? It's one problem. It's a problem other people have seen. My TSC should be good though; I'd like to use it. At times ntpd (the NTP daemon) gets really unhappy with the situation, yanking my clock ahead by up to 10 minutes to compensate for lost time. > The person who fixes this gets a Nobel prize. > > > Remember that this is a pretty normal system. I have > > a Red Hat 8 install w/ required upgrades, ext3, IDE, > > a 1-GHz Pentium III, a boring VIA chipset, etc. > > > > To reproduce, I do some PS/2 mouse movement while > > doing one of: > > > > a. Lots of concurrent write() and sync() activity to ext3. > > b. Lots of NFSv3 traffic. > > ie: lots of interrupt traffic causes the PS2 driver to go whacky? I guess so. The ext3+IDE behavior seems to lift the blame from boomerang_interrupt. Using ext3+IDE, I seem to need a couple minutes to reproduce the problem. NFSv3+Ethernet will give me the problem almost instantly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/