On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:52:41PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:45:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/ > > > > Will appear later at > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/ > > I jumped from rc2-mm1 to rc6-mm3 and tried dynticks for the first time: > > ... > Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. > Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -275154141 ns) > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! > [<c0104dac>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f > [<c010540b>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 > [<c010548f>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 > [<c0146e50>] softlockup_tick+0xa7/0xb6 > [<c01286c0>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14 > [<c0128a61>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63 > [<c01374c5>] tick_nohz_handler+0x7d/0xe3 > [<c01137c2>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x83 > [<c01048f4>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 > [<c013709e>] tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x12/0xc8 > [<c0136a58>] tick_notify+0x1cd/0x241 > [<c012bd4e>] notifier_call_chain+0x2b/0x55 > [<c012bde2>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x19/0x1e > [<c012be01>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x1a/0x1c > [<c01364ea>] clockevents_do_notify+0x11/0x13 > [<c013672d>] clockevents_notify+0x1c/0x53 > [<f8f7b5cb>] acpi_state_timer_broadcast+0x2e/0x31 [processor] > [<f8f7c12f>] acpi_processor_idle+0x276/0x40b [processor] > [<c0102435>] cpu_idle+0xad/0xd3 > [<c0112975>] start_secondary+0x32b/0x333 > [<00000000>] run_init_process+0x3fefed10/0x19 > ======================= > > Full dmesg and config: > http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/nohz_soft-lockup.dmesg > http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/config-2.6.20-rc6-mm3-1 > > As a side note the process becomes slower and slower as it proceeds, > it's definitely noticeable during my iptables rules setup (nothing that > complex, just default policies and subnet/lan accept rules). > Building with NO_HZ=n right now.
yes, slowness is gone. Any useful information I can provide? -- mattia :wq! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/