Re: [Regression] Filesystem I/O is CPU-bound in rc7 and rc8

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 - 16:02:30 EST


On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:04 AM, James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While getting re-aquainted with perf, and after upgrading to the current
> version, I see that do_page_fault, unmap_vmas, get_page_from_freelist,
> handle_mm_fault, __do_fault and T.1339 tend to get the most time when the
> kernel is spinning.

dmesg? lspci -vv?

We have an AGP related issue with WC/UC paging that might be related,
but I'd need more info.

Dave.
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