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From: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: badness in kernel/softirq.c
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:41:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079800910.13796.7.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079800804.13796.5.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com>

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On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 11:40, Brad Laue wrote:
> This is a followup to my earlier mail 'ksoftirqd using mysteriously high
> amounts of CPU time'. After working briefly with Andrew Morton on the
> issue we seem to have identified the 'pppoe' userspace program as the
> culprit for that issue.
> 
> After some playing with kernel options I switched my PPPoE connection
> options from asynctty to synctty, and observed almost no usage of
> ksoftirqd/0 at all, as it should be.
> 
> However, the pppoe process maintains an extreme amount of CPU
> utilization, cutting off the machines ability to send and receive at its
> fastest possible rate. Additionally the attached error fills dmesg after
> a couple of days (vanilla 2.6.3 kernel).
> 
> I'm hoping the PPP stuff in the kernel is well enough maintained that a
> problem/solution can be identified..
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Brad

I apparently need to be reminded to actually attach attachments. :-)

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Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:126
Call Trace:
 [<c0121d46>] local_bh_enable+0x86/0x90
 [<d087ac3b>] ppp_sync_push+0x5b/0x170 [ppp_synctty]
 [<d087a63d>] ppp_sync_wakeup+0x2d/0x60 [ppp_synctty]
 [<c024363a>] do_tty_hangup+0x3ea/0x460
 [<c0244bcd>] release_dev+0x62d/0x660
 [<c0142d53>] unmap_page_range+0x43/0x70
 [<c0168b62>] dput+0x22/0x210
 [<c0244faa>] tty_release+0x2a/0x60
 [<c0152ec0>] __fput+0x100/0x120
 [<c0151529>] filp_close+0x59/0x90
 [<c011f594>] put_files_struct+0x54/0xc0
 [<c01201fd>] do_exit+0x18d/0x410
 [<c012051a>] do_group_exit+0x3a/0xb0
 [<c0109387>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:126
Call Trace:
 [<c0121d46>] local_bh_enable+0x86/0x90
 [<d087ac3b>] ppp_sync_push+0x5b/0x170 [ppp_synctty]
 [<d087a63d>] ppp_sync_wakeup+0x2d/0x60 [ppp_synctty]
 [<c024363a>] do_tty_hangup+0x3ea/0x460
 [<c0244bcd>] release_dev+0x62d/0x660
 [<c0142d53>] unmap_page_range+0x43/0x70
 [<c0168b62>] dput+0x22/0x210
 [<c0244faa>] tty_release+0x2a/0x60
 [<c0152ec0>] __fput+0x100/0x120
 [<c0151529>] filp_close+0x59/0x90
 [<c011f594>] put_files_struct+0x54/0xc0
 [<c01201fd>] do_exit+0x18d/0x410
 [<c012051a>] do_group_exit+0x3a/0xb0
 [<c0109387>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-20 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-20 16:40 Brad Laue
2004-03-20 16:41 ` Brad Laue [this message]
2004-03-20 16:51   ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2004-03-20 17:50   ` Brad Laue
2004-03-20 21:53   ` Andrew Morton

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