On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 14:20 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > It means that IRQ 14 is running for a long time as an RT task > > Oh yeah, I forgot to comment on this. Yes IRQ 14 is rather slow. It's > the IDE drive interrupt and it gets pretty busy. Actually the check > doesn't really see if it is running for a long time, since it gets > scheduled out. But I'm running this on a slow 368MHz machine and it > takes some time. There's cases where every second the interrupt just > happened to be running, since that is what it checks. It doesn't check > to see if the thread actual sleeps. > > I may add something to your patch to see if a thread actually goes to > sleep. If it doesn't then to flag it as possible stuck.
I was offering to do that earlier , but I assumed your other patch was sufficient .. Feel free to add it if you think it's needed.. Daniel - 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/
