Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.32-15

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 10 2004 - 16:17:21 EST



* Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [3] Some traces show information on both CPU's and then a long period
> with no traces from the other. Here is an example...

> <unknown-2847 1d.h. 4µs : rebalance_tick (scheduler_tick)
> <unknown-2847 1d.h. 5µs : irq_exit (apic_timer_interrupt)
> <unknown-2847 1d... 5µs < (0)

> ... no more traces from CPU 1 ...

PID 2847 returned to userspace at timestamp 5µs. Userspace then can take
an arbitrary amount of time until it calls the kernel again.

Ingo
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