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SubjectRe: 2.6.16-rc1: 28ms latency when process with lots of swapped memory exits
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On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 18:40 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > I've been testign for weeks with 2.6.16-rc1 + the latency trace patch
> > and the longest latencies measured were 10-15ms due to the well known
> > rt_run_flush issue. Today I got one twice as long, when a Firefox
> > process with a bunch of acroreads in tabs, from a new code path.
> >
> > It seems to trigger when a process with a large amount of memory swapped
> > out exits.
> >
> > Can this be solved with a cond_resched?
>
> Not that easily, I think.
>
> Are you testing with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, as I'd expect? I thought
> cond_resched() adds nothing to that case (and we keep on intending
> but forgetting to make it compile away to nothing in that case).
> Or am I confused?
>

Thanks for the explanation - I am the one confused (PREEMPT is on so
cond_resched would be pointless).

Lee

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