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Subject: RE: Latency traces I cannot interpret (sa1100, 2.6.15-rc7-rt1)
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Thread-Topic: Latency traces I cannot interpret (sa1100, 2.6.15-rc7-rt1)
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From: "kus Kusche Klaus" <kus@keba.com>
To: "Daniel Walker" <dwalker@mvista.com>
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> From: Daniel Walker
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:08 +0100, kus Kusche Klaus wrote:
> > I took some latency traces on our sa1100 (see attachment) running
> > 2.6.15-rc7-rt1 with full preemption.
> > They look very bad at the first glance, but I cannot 
> interpret them in
> > detail.
> > 
> > Trace 3, 4 and 5 seem to have obvious reasons: FPU emulation,
> > Framebuffer console updates, and compression/decompression 
> of flash data
> > for jffs2.
> > 
> > Moreover, if I read these traces correctly, they just disable
> > preemption, but still allow interrupts. Is that correct? 
> Can anything be
> > done against these latencies, i.e. do they really need to disable
> > preemption for such a long time?
> > 
> > However, traces 1, 2, 6 and 7 are completely mysterious to me.
> > Interrupts seem to be blocked for milliseconds, while 
> nothing is going
> > on on the system? Moreover, there are console-related 
> function names in
> > traces 6 and 7, although I've unconfigured the framebuffer 
> console for
> > these runs!
> 
> Do you have any power management features turned on?
> 
> I've seen some traces that look like this on buggy intel x86 hardware.
> When a small two line function with no loops lasts for 10ms . One of
> your traces showed irq_exit() lasting 9ms . It's like the process just
> stops.

No, no power management at all.

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