Re: [3.9-rc1] irq 16: nobody cared (was [3.9-rc1] very poor interrupt responses)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, March 14, 2013 05:09:59 PM Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> > > > I don't think I have seen this message on rc1+ (8343bce, to be precise), 
> > > > but I have definitely seen sluggish system response on that kernel as 
> > > > well.
> > > > 
> > > > Attaching lspci, /proc/interrupts and dmesg. 
> > > 
> > > Can you try to do a git bisect for this?  Is the sluggish system 
> > > response clear enough that you can tell reliably when it is present and 
> > > when it isn't?
> > 
> > That was my first thought, but unfortunately I am afraid there will be 
> > point at which I will easily make a bisection mistake, as the 
> > responsiveness of the system varies over time, so it's not really a 
> > 100% objective measure.
> 
> So I will try a bisect, but it'll take some time so that I could claim it 
> to be trustworthy.
> 
> Therefore in case anyone has any idea in parallel, I am all ears.

This one is a candidate to focus on I think:

commit 181380b702eee1a9aca51354d7b87c7b08541fcf
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Feb 16 11:58:34 2013 -0700

    PCI/ACPI: Don't cache _PRT, and don't associate them with bus numbers

Thanks,
Rafael


-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/