Re: RFC: futex_wait() can DoS the tick

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jun 10 2015 - 15:16:06 EST


On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:59:49 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 17:12 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > > Some more information about your symptoms in form of configuration,
> > > extra patches, kernel traces etc. would be appreciated.
> >
> > homer:~/tmp # perf record -C 3 -eirq:*,irq_vectors:local* -- sleep 10

I would recommend using trace-cmd especially if you add function
tracing, as it's made more for fast tracing.

-- Steve

> > [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1380.507 MB perf.data (19530595 samples) ]
> > homer:~/tmp # perf script | grep irq_vectors:local_timer
> > ksoftirqd/3 19 [003] 5586.564238: irq_vectors:local_timer_entry: vector=239
> > ksoftirqd/3 19 [003] 5586.564239: irq_vectors:local_timer_exit: vector=239
> > ksoftirqd/3 19 [003] 5586.568238: irq_vectors:local_timer_entry: vector=239
> > ksoftirqd/3 19 [003] 5586.568239: irq_vectors:local_timer_exit: vector=239
> > ksoftirqd/3 19 [003] 5586.632218: irq_vectors:local_timer_entry: vector=239
>
> That gap is odd. Can you fire up the function tracer please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx

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