On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:54:06 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > (ksoftirqd/0/2): 307 us critical section violates 250 us threshold.
> >  => started at: <___do_softirq+0x20/0x90>
> >  => ended at: <cond_resched_softirq+0x59/0x70>
> 
> this is too opaque - could you try -O7, enable tracing and save a
> /proc/latency_trace instance of such a latency? It looks like some
> sort of softirq latency - perhaps one particular driver's timer fn
> causes it- we'll be able to tell more from the trace.

Hi, this looks like one of them:

mango:~# cat /proc/latency_trace 
preemption latency trace v1.0
-----------------------------
 latency: 308 us, entries: 12 (12)
 process: ksoftirqd/0/2, uid: 0
 nice: -10, policy: 0, rt_priority: 0
=======>
 0.000ms (+0.000ms): run_timer_softirq (___do_softirq)
 0.000ms (+0.000ms): sis900_timer (run_timer_softirq)
 0.001ms (+0.000ms): mdio_read (sis900_timer)
 0.002ms (+0.000ms): mdio_reset (mdio_read)
 0.071ms (+0.069ms): mdio_idle (mdio_read)
 0.151ms (+0.079ms): mdio_read (sis900_timer)
 0.151ms (+0.000ms): mdio_reset (mdio_read)
 0.220ms (+0.069ms): mdio_idle (mdio_read)
 0.300ms (+0.079ms): __mod_timer (sis900_timer)
 0.300ms (+0.000ms): internal_add_timer (__mod_timer)
 0.300ms (+0.000ms): cond_resched_softirq (run_timer_softirq)
 0.301ms (+0.000ms): check_preempt_timing (touch_preempt_timing)

Flo

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