Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:06:58 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 |
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> Otherwise, this looks pretty good. Here is a new one, I got this > starting X: > > http://krustophenia.net/testresults.php?dataset=2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5#/var/www/2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5/trace2.txt
ok, MTRR setting overhead. It is not quite clear to me which precise code took so much time, could you stick a couple of 'mcount();' lines into arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c's prepare_set() and generic_set_mtrr() functions? In particular the wbinvd() [cache invalidation] instructions within prepare_set() look like a possible source of latency.
(explicit calls to mcount() can be used to break up latency paths manually - they wont affect the latency itself, they make the resulting trace more finegrained.)
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