On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 20:10 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner schrieb:
> > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:27 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> >
> >> Subject : Bad interaction between dynticks and amarok?
> >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/26/307
> >> Submitter : Thomas Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Status : Unknow
> >>
> >
> > Michal,
> >
> > I don't think this is a regression. What Thomas wanted to point out is,
> > that the amarok / sound device is making the positive effect of dynticks
> > moot, as it starts to trigger useless interrupts.
> >
> > Thomas, is my interpretation correct ? Did you check, which interrupt
> > was increasing - i.e. was it the soundcard one ?
> >
> No, it wasn't the soundcard one. but i had this effect with amarok and
> audacious... so, i guessed... which was wrong.
>
> It's the timer interrupt (+50-70 timer interrupts). But i'm not sure
> what both applications are doing, while they are "idle"...
Ok, so amarok is one of those applications which arm timers for no
obvious reason. If you enable CONFIG_TIMER_STATS in the kernel, you can
analyse the timer offenders via the /proc/timer_stats interface.
tglx
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