Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 08:05:27 EST



* Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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