Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760463AbXESJ4R (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 05:56:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754767AbXESJ4I (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 05:56:08 -0400 Received: from d06184ca.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.202]:41128 "EHLO spaceymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754560AbXESJ4H (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 05:56:07 -0400 From: Anant Nitya Organization: Prachanda Hub To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] local_softirq_pending storm Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 15:25:27 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Thomas Gleixner References: <200705091942.22920.kernel@prachanda.hub> <200705171211.23350.kernel@prachanda.hub> <1179493277.12981.69.camel@chaos> In-Reply-To: <1179493277.12981.69.camel@chaos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705191525.28400.kernel@prachanda.hub> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2340 Lines: 56 On Friday 18 May 2007 18:31:17 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:11 +0530, Anant Nitya wrote: > > On Friday 11 May 2007 03:28:46 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Ok, that's consistent with earlier reports. The problem surfaces when > > > one of the SMT-"cpus" goes idle. The problem goes away when you disable > > > hyperthreading. > > > > Yes with HT disabled in BIOS there is no local_softirq_pending messages. > > BTW why does this problem persist only with X ? > > No idea. I uploaded a debug patch against 2.6.22-rc1 to > > http://www.tglx.de/private/tglx/2.6.22-rc1-hrt-debug.patch > > Can you give it a try and report the output ? Hi Here it goes [ 159.646196] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 159.646207] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 159.646217] .... last caller: __tasklet_schedule [ 159.646997] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 159.647006] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 159.647013] .... last caller: __tasklet_schedule [ 159.647398] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 159.647405] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 159.647412] .... last caller: __tasklet_schedule [ 159.647768] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 159.647775] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 159.647781] .... last caller: __tasklet_schedule [ 166.285664] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 166.285675] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 166.285687] .... last caller: raise_softirq [ 166.286321] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 166.286329] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 166.286337] .... last caller: raise_softirq [ 166.286715] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 166.286722] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 166.286729] .... last caller: raise_softirq [ 166.287085] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 166.287092] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 166.287098] .... last caller: raise_softirq [ 171.512134] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 171.512144] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 171.512154] .... last caller: __tasklet_schedule [ 171.512712] NOHZ softirq pending 22 on CPU 0 [ 171.512720] .... task state: 1 00000000 [ 171.512727] .... last caller: __tasklet_schedule Regards Ananitya - 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/