Re: 2.5.38-mm3

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 03:27:43 EST


On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:39:19AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Interesting, can you narrow down the poll overheads any? No immediate
> needs (read as: leave your box up, but watch for it when you can),
> but I'd be interested in knowing if it's fd chunk or poll table setup
> overhead.

Hmm.. I don't see this by just leaving the box up (and a fiew interactive
commands) (4CPU P3 2.5.38-vanilla) -

8744695 default_idle 136635.8594
  4371 __rdtsc_delay 136.5938
 22793 do_softirq 118.7135
  1734 serial_in 21.6750
   261 .text.lock.serio 13.7368
8777715 total 6.2461
   422 tasklet_hi_action 2.0288
   106 bh_action 1.3250
    46 system_call 1.0455
    56 __generic_copy_to_user 0.8750
   575 timer_bh 0.8168
    70 __cpu_up 0.7292
    57 cpu_idle 0.5089
    24 __const_udelay 0.3750
    35 mdio_read 0.3646
   120 probe_irq_on 0.3571
   134 page_remove_rmap 0.3102
   108 page_add_rmap 0.3068
    18 find_get_page 0.2812
   189 do_wp_page 0.2513
     7 fput 0.2188
    27 pte_alloc_one 0.1875
   135 __free_pages_ok 0.1834
     2 syscall_call 0.1818
    11 pgd_alloc 0.1719
    11 __free_pages 0.1719
    65 i8042_interrupt 0.1693
     8 __wake_up 0.1667
    16 find_vma 0.1667
    15 serial_out 0.1562
    15 radix_tree_lookup 0.1339
    17 kmem_cache_free 0.1328
    17 get_page_state 0.1328
    62 zap_pte_range 0.1292
     6 mdio_sync 0.1250
     3 ret_from_intr 0.1250
     2 cap_inode_permission_lite 0.1250
     2 cap_file_permission 0.1250
    49 do_anonymous_page 0.1178
     9 lru_cache_add 0.1125
     9 fget 0.1125

What application were you all running ?

Thanks

-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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