Re: 2.5.69 Interrupt Latency

[Andrew Morton]

Paul Fulghum <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Paul Fulghum <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > >
> > > 2.5.69
> > > Latency 100-110usec (5x increase)
> > > Spikes from 5-10 milliseconds
> > > 
> 
> > If you can describe what drivers are in use, and what workload triggers the
> > problem then it may be locatable by inspection.
> 
> After inspecting both machines, there is no common
> hardware other than the net device. Both machines
> use the e100 driver.
> 
> After removing the e100 driver altogether,
> the increased latency and latency spikes persist.
> 
> So it looks like this problem is not specific to a
> particular hardware driver, but is a result of a
> more fundemental, system wide change.
> 
> I'm going to try your suggestion of doing a stack dump
> when the driver encounters the large spikes in IRQ latency,
> to determine if something is leaving interrupts disabled.

I wasn't very informative, alas.

> That will not address the fact that the minimum
> latency has jumped from 20usec (2.4.20 - 2.5.68) to 100usec
> (2.5.69). This may actually be two separate problems
> introduced with 2.5.69

Can you pinpoint a kernel version at which it started to happen?