Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So there seems to be a bug in the latency tracer where the timer is > not being reset on reschedule. [...] update: i found a bug in the latency tracer that could explain some of the artifacts you noticed, IRQs would reset the tracing timer under certa

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:12 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Now the longest latency I see with "dbench 16" > and PREEMPT_DESKTOP is 591us in the ext3 reservation code. Trace is > attached (compressed) in case anyone is interested. But I do not > consider anything under a millisecond to be a problem wi

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:22 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > hm, weird, and i have no solution for this yet. But i just found a > related bug in the -RT patch in that it reverted a latency breaker in > the ext3 path that your trace shows - affecting PREEMPT_DESKTOP. Could > you try the 40-03 patch i jus

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Next I tried the same test but with JACK running. The longest > latency reported was only 200 usecs, and I did not get xruns. > > Then, right after I stopped JACK, the latency tracer shot up to 1645 > usecs. > > So there seems to be a bug in the

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 02:51 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 08:08 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > great! The change in question is most likely the copy_page_range() fix > > that Hugh resurrected: > > > > ChangeSet 1.2037, 2005/03/08 09:26:46-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [PA

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 08:08 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > great! The change in question is most likely the copy_page_range() fix > that Hugh resurrected: > > ChangeSet 1.2037, 2005/03/08 09:26:46-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] copy_pte_range latency fix > > Ingo's patch to

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did the same quick latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1 that I posted about > for 2.6.11 a few weeks ago. > > 2.6.12-rc1 is significantly better than 2.6.11. Running JACK at 64 > frames (1.3 ms) works very well. I was not able to prod

Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-18 Thread Lee Revell
I did the same quick latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1 that I posted about for 2.6.11 a few weeks ago. 2.6.12-rc1 is significantly better than 2.6.11. Running JACK at 64 frames (1.3 ms) works very well. I was not able to produce xruns even with "dbench 64", which slows the system to a cr