Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:and rt18 was a -rt-only NOHZ fix, that bug got introduced in rt11 when CFS was merged.Yes, it works much better indeed...Changes since 2.6.21.5-rt18:Maybe someone remember me whining about troubles with 2.6.21-rt2..18 on my Core2 T7200 laptop (fujitsu-siemens amilo i1520).
- Fixed a nasty and hard to track down slowness / boot problem on SMP
machines with CONFIG_NOHZ enabled. The problem was caused by the timer
wheel base lock held during the get_next_timer_interrupt() call in the
idle path, which eventually led to a bogus PI boosting of the idle task
and in consequence a stale wrong scheduler selection for the affected idle
task.
Kudos to Carsten Emde, who patiently and meticulously isolated the
problem and provided the traces, which allowed to identify the root cause.
Problem solution: Prevent idle task boosting
Althought I'm still with my fingers crossed, I can tell the good news are that 2.6.21.5-rt19 (and -rt20) does behave far better now on the very same box.
Ingo: is there a place where I can read about the changes in different rtxx releases? What is new/better/fixed in rt20? (I see scheduler stuff in a diff from rt19 to rt20 but I don't really know what it means).
i _think_ Rui might have seen two separate problems. Perhaps by the time we fixed the first problem (which Rui saw since -rt2) we introduced the other one via -rt11 - which then got fixed in -rt19.
Ahh, CFS is now part of rt, I was obviously not paying attention... I'm
really trying to provide a "stable" rt kernel for audio usage and
including another subsystem into rt is - IMHO - not going to help.
What's the chance of splitting things?
btw., we'd love to get more feedback regarding CFS. CFS is a completely new scheduler for Linux.
Then I'd rather have it separate from rt.
It has a design centered around keeping application latencies down, so it is ultimately real-time friendly, and it should also make things work better for desktop-ish and audio-ish stuff as well. (even under SCHED_OTHER)
Maybe this is CFS related? (tail of a thread in the Planet CCRMA mailing
list):
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:26 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
Ok, so just to confirm, that 2.6.21-0182.rt19.1.fc7.ccrmart works fineI managed to completely hang firefox (fc7) with flash 9 installed
on my desktop but on my laptop it makes Firefox and Tomboy to crash.
On the same laptop using 2.6.21-0182.rt17.1.fc7.ccrmart there is no
problem.
(unkillable even with -9).
Firefox with flash 9 does not work good , there are a lot bugs reported about ( just google ) and it hangs on vanilla or whatever other kernels as well. Not only Firefox but also Swiftfox, Opera, Epiphany etc.
The most time Firefox dies when you use flash 9 and close a window or a tab.