Re: Rescheduling interrupts
From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 14:03:19 EST
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * S.ÃaÄlar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > My theory is that for whatever reason we get "repeat" IPIs: multiple
> > > reschedule IPIs although the other CPU only initiated one.
> >
> > Ok, please see http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/dmesg.3rd :)
>
> hm, the IPI sending and receiving is nicely paired up:
>
> [ 625.795008] IPI (@smp_reschedule_interrupt) from task swapper:0 on CPU#1:
> [ 625.795223] IPI (@native_smp_send_reschedule) from task amarokapp:2882 on CPU#1:
>
> amarokapp does wake up threads every 20 microseconds - that could
> explain it. It's probably Xorg running on one core, amarokapp on the
> other core. That's already 100 reschedules/sec.
Was this IPI thing ever resolved/fixed? I'm seeing the exact same
thing on my newest Fedora 8 kernel (2.6.24.5-85.fc8) now:
33.3% (334.0) <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
And I know for sure that this did not show up a couple of months back.
If the cause of this is known, please let me know about it. If it
isn't, I will start a bisect run now :-)
Thanks.
Vegard
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