Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:52:01 -0600 | From | Jayson King <> | Subject | Disregard: was Re: large intermittent latency spike 2.6.28 (and 2.6.27.10), bisect commit ca7e716c7833aeaeb8fedd6d004c5f5d5e14d325 -> Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards" |
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> I noticed large latency spikes in 2.6.28 (and 2.6.27.10) which would > make the system unresponsive for minutes at a time (alt+Fn switching > wouldn't even work) when the system is under load. I could trigger the > latency by running a large make -j 3. Sometimes it would trigger in a > few seconds other times it would take a few minutes. > > I bisected it in 2.6.27.10 to d9a888b061f55534016d2d86a21639948312a117 > -> Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards" > (ca7e716c7833aeaeb8fedd6d004c5f5d5e14d325 in 2.6.28) and reverting it > in 2.6.28 make the latency spike go away. At least, so far no spike in > over 24 hours. Please disregard this. I just had a latency spike again, so this is not the change I'm looking for... I'll need to look for what is causing it again, apparently not only the make -j 3 I thought, and do another test.
Jayson
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