Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v14

From: S.ÃaÄlar Onur
Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 09:36:18 EST


Hi;

26 May 2007 Cts tarihinde, S.ÃaÄlar Onur ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> Under load (compiling any Qt app. or kernel with -j1 or -j2) audio always
> goes sync with time (and i'm sure it never skips) but video starts slowdown
> and loses its sync with audio (like for the 10th sec. of a movie, audio is
> at 10th sec. also, but the shown video is from 7th sec.).
>
> After some time video suddenly wants to sync with audio and starts to play
> really fast (like fast-forward) and syncs with audio. But it will lose its
> audio/video sync after a while and loop continues like that.

After a lots of private mail traffic and debuggin efforts with Ingo, yesterday
i simply requested to ignore that problem (at least until i can reproduce
same with different machines).

Yesterday i turn back to vanilla 2.6.18.8 to see the situation with it and i
reproduce the problem even with lower loads.

Seems like this piece of hardware is dieing [For a while my laptop starts to
poweroff suddenly without any log/error etc] and i think all these problems
caused by this. Or at least/ for me/ this laptop (sony vaio fs-215b) is not a
stable test bed for this kind of human involved testings.

Ingo cannot reproduce same audio/video out-of-sync problems with his setups,
and currently i'm the only person deals with that problem.

And for some boots kernel reports wrong frequency for my cpu (and notice the
timing difference), [this maybe a overheat problem but aslo i'll try
disabling CONFIG_NO_HZ as Ingo suggested]

...
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 897.591 MHz processor.
[ 13.142654] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[ 13.143609] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288
bytes)
[ 13.144530] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
...

...
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 1729.292 MHz processor.
[ 8.286228] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[ 8.286650] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288
bytes)
[ 8.287058] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
...

As a result, please ignore this problem until i can reproduce on different
machines or someone else reports the same problem :)

Cheers
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S.ÃaÄlar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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