Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753699AbYBDNFZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:05:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754797AbYBDNEi (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:04:38 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:42581 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753380AbYBDNEc (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:04:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:04:18 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Lukas Hejtmanek Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression Message-ID: <20080204130418.GB8730@elte.hu> References: <20080130135609.GA5100@ics.muni.cz> <20080131102919.GC27157@elte.hu> <20080204111747.GB4450@ics.muni.cz> <20080204120131.GA20962@elte.hu> <20080204122900.GA4287@ics.muni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080204122900.GA4287@ics.muni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1334 Lines: 32 * Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > > > > but in such a case, kernel 2.6.24-git13 does oops at startup in > > > sched_slice. > > > > could you tell me more about this oops? You booted unmodified, latest > > -git and it oopsed in sched_slice()? The patch below should work around > > any oopses in sched_slice(). [but this is really a 'must not happen' > > scenario - so a just-for-testing patch] > > No, I booted modified lates git to see if mentioned patch (revertin > slices) solves horrible non-interactivy problem. With your fix, I can > boot now but the patch did not help. Make -j2 in kernel sources > significantly decreases interactivity. Any ideas? yes, please run latencytop - does it pinpoint any latency source? Enable CONFIG_LATENCYTOP in the -git13 kernel and run the utility from latencytop.org. Also, please send me the output of this script: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh Ingo -- 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/