Re: Interrupt latency on some 945GM platforms

[Stefan Biereigel]

 Am 24.09.2010 21:51, schrieb Jesse Barnes:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:48:36 +0300
> Vasily Khoruzhick<anarsoul@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > On 24 of September 2010 22:39:01 Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:06:46 +0300
> > >
> > > Vasily Khoruzhick<anarsoul@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > Ð ÑÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÐ ÐÑ 16 of September 2010 21:50:50 ÐÐÑÐÑ Thomas Gleixner
> > ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ:
> > > > > Ok. The problematic part of HPET was not the clocksource, it was the
> > > > > clock event device which failed to deliver interrupts occasionally. It
> > > > > was worth a try at least.
> > > > Hm, it seems that jerky glxgears is not related to jerky keyboard events.
> > > > Keyboard is jerky only in konsole (kde terminal emulator), it seems
> > > > something happened it seems that font rendering performance is much
> > > > worse in latest xf86-video-intel than in xf86-video-intel-2.12.0.
> > > Len just had me try a few things too:
> > >    - maxcpus=1 lets things work
> > >    - offlining cpu1 at runtime (echo 0
> > >
> > >      >  /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online) lets things work
> > >
> > >    - binding the i915 interrupt to cpu 0 does *not* help
> > >
> > > Vasily and Paolo, do you both have Atom CPUs with hyperthreading
> > > enabled?
> > Nope, I have Core2Duo T5500, dual-core, no hyperthreading :)
> Hm, well there goes the theory about Atom HT...

Hello Everyone,
just to add on to reports of this problem, there was a Thread here in 
LKML some months ago targeting the same problem (but not really 
attacking it at the Chipset driver). As I have one of those Laptops with 
a 945GM-Chipset and am stuck with the same Problem (disabled tickless 
now as a workaround and set ticks to 1000) I could maybe do some testing 
of patches.
So what I can summarize is what the others did before: Disabling CPU1 
helps, adding nohz=off helps, changing the Clocksource afterwards helps, 
binding the Interrupt does NOT help.
So here's the Link to the old Discussion with follow-ups, maybe you can 
get some furter information from there.
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-05/msg03696.html
We targeted the BIOS itself as everyone in this thread happened to own 
an Phoenix BIOS with some special version string.
best, Stefan
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