Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andres Freund <> | | Subject | Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 ( possibly?caused by netem) | | Date | Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:26:21 +0200 |
On Friday 03 July 2009 08:12:13 Jarek Poplawski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:31:31AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > ... > > > Ok. I finally see the light. I bisected the issue down to > > eea08f32adb3f97553d49a4f79a119833036000a : timers: Logic to move non > > pinned timers > > > > Disabling timer migration like provided in the earlier commit stops the > > issue from occuring. > > > > That it is related to timers is sensible in the light of my findings, > > that I could trigger the issue only when using delay in netem - that is > > the codepath using qdisc_watchdog... > > Andres, thanks for your work and time. It saved me a lot of searching, > because I wasn't able to trigger this on my old box. Thanks. It allowed me to go through some of my remaining paperwork ;-)
Does anybody of you have an idea where the problem actually resides? qdisc_watchdog_schedule looks innocent enough for my uneducated eyes - and the patch/infrastructure from Arun goes over my head... I will happily test some ideas/patches.
Aside from that - is the whole PSCHED_TICKS2NS/PSCHED_NS2TICKS conversion business purely backward compatibility?
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