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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: dwalker@mvista.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt1
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:43:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125038597.20120.147.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125018945.14592.15.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com>

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 18:15 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 02:22 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:29 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > Devastating latency on a 3Ghz xeon .. Maybe the raw_spinlock in the
> > > timer base is creating a unbounded latency?
> > 
> > The lock is only held for really short periods. The only possible long
> > period would be migration of timers from a dead hotplug cpu to another.
> > I guess thats not the case.
> > 
> > Do you have HIGH_RES_TIMERS enabled ?
> 
> No. The cascade has a very long worst case.

You mean the cascading from the outer to the inner wheels ? That should
only happen with tons of active timers.

tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-25  6:26 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2005-08-25 15:36 ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-25 17:45   ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2005-08-25 21:35     ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-26  6:31       ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2005-08-26 14:27         ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-25 17:37 ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Chuck Harding
2005-08-25 21:46 ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-25 21:54   ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2005-08-25 22:11     ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-25 22:19     ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-26  6:32   ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2005-08-25 23:29 ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-26  0:22   ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2005-08-26  1:15     ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-26  6:43       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2005-08-26 14:17         ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Daniel Walker
2005-08-26  6:17   ` 2.6.13-rc7-rt1 Ingo Molnar

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