Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc1-mm2-V0.7.7

["Michael J. Cohen" <mjc@unre.st>]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Michael J. Cohen <mjc@unre.st> wrote:
> 
> > config attached, and I'll try booting with nmi_watchdog=1 next time it
> > locks.
> 
> i'd also suggest to turn CONFIG_RWSEM_DEADLOCK_DETECT on.
> 
> 	Ingo
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threw in your tcp_window oneliner mentioned in another thread and that
seemed to curb the lockups I was getting.  xmms+jackd in realtime mode
is getting some xruns during any kind of IDE activity. network isn't
quite as fussy.

http://325i.org/kernel/2.6.10-rc1-mm2-RT-V0.7.8
+tcp_window-jackd-diskio.dmesg is the dmesg to go with the following
jackd log.  during the entire test I used xmms-jack with an mp3 read
from an nfs source.

optie ~ # jackd -R -d alsa -P -HMm -z s -o 6   
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

loading driver ..
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|-|1024|2|48000|0|6|hwmon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Noise-shaped dithering at 16 bits
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 55.205 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.287 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 101.226 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 21.544 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 78.721 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 278.089 msecs

to produce the disk load I ran 'emerge metadata'.

upon running bonnie++, I got:

**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 808.719 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 702.963 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 78.230 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 78.351 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 78.390 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 77.898 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 78.354 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 78.394 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 77.835 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 19.489 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 85.666 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 14.937 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 16.331 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 2.079 msecs

bonnie++ measurements are at
http://325i.org/kernel/2.6.10-rc1-mm2-RT-V0.7.8
+tcp_window-jackd-diskio.bonnie++

finally I downloaded a 700MB avi to /dev/null from the box beside it:
100%[====================================>] 734,797,824   11.08M/s   ETA
00:00

0 xruns

then to /root:

100%[====================================>] 734,797,824   11.07M/s
ETA 00:00

0 xruns during download but 2 xruns while rm'ing the file:

**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 41.071 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 66.074 msecs


I could only find tcp related info in dmesg. strange.

HTH,

Michael Cohen