Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266232AbUANAJq (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:09:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265878AbUANAIg (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:08:36 -0500 Received: from amsfep12-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.18]:864 "EHLO amsfep20-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266215AbUANAHt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:07:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:07:46 +0100 From: Haakon Riiser To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Busy-wait delay in qmail 1.03 after upgrading to Linux 2.6 Message-ID: <20040114000746.GA691@s.chello.no> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040113210923.GA955@s.chello.no> <20040113135152.3ed26b85.akpm@osdl.org> <20040113232624.GA302@s.chello.no> <20040113154348.5542cb7b.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040113154348.5542cb7b.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3558 Lines: 70 [Andrew Morton] > OK, that's inconclusive. Could you do a few runs, or leave it a day or > two, wait until the problem is really prominent and see if you can gather a > clearer profile? The profiling overhead is negligible when profiling is > enabled but not in use, so there is no need to reboot. I tried running the test over and over, and after around 20 times, it suddenly jumped from 0.3 seconds to 1.6 again. Results follow: strace: 678 01:04:16.722816 write(5, "\0", 1) = 1 <1.635007> time: real 0m1.666s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.005s prof.time: c0139ea0 buffered_rmqueue 9 0.0256 c0141e10 page_address 9 0.0469 c0151a70 get_unused_fd 9 0.0216 c0161830 open_namei 9 0.0089 c01f8500 bin_search_in_dir_item 9 0.0511 c0144040 do_anonymous_page 10 0.0189 c0146300 find_vma 10 0.1042 c013d650 kmem_cache_free 11 0.1375 c0145ab0 do_mmap_pgoff 11 0.0061 c0153640 __fput 11 0.0382 c0161180 path_lookup 11 0.0362 c01654f0 __pollwait 11 0.0529 c022bec0 memcpy 11 0.1146 c011aad0 add_wait_queue 12 0.1250 c0151860 dentry_open 12 0.0227 c01539b0 __constant_c_and_count_memset 12 0.0833 c0151d50 filp_close 13 0.0903 c01f85b0 search_by_entry_key 13 0.0262 c01457c0 vma_merge 14 0.0186 c02112a0 is_tree_node 14 0.1250 c0142a20 zap_pte_range 15 0.0347 c022c650 __copy_from_user_ll 15 0.0852 c015f640 pipe_poll 16 0.1250 c01655c0 max_select_fd 16 0.0714 c0117440 do_page_fault 17 0.0131 c0106d30 default_idle 19 0.3958 c013d6a0 kfree 20 0.1786 c0153760 fget 21 0.3281 c01606a0 link_path_walk 21 0.0091 c022c5d0 __copy_to_user_ll 22 0.1719 c0211030 is_leaf 23 0.0496 c016aaa0 __d_lookup 28 0.0833 c0203d70 reiserfs_readdir 28 0.0184 c0155230 __find_get_block 36 0.1607 c01656a0 do_select 47 0.0653 c01659a0 sys_select 50 0.0391 c0211310 search_by_key 90 0.0247 c0109174 system_call 107 2.4318 c022c0b0 fast_clear_page 119 1.2396 00000000 total 1251 0.0005 -- Haakon - 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/