* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> * William Weston <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Attached are two typical traces and the .config from my Xeon/HT box,
> > currently running -50-06 with a normal desktop workload (X, wmaker,
> > ten dockapps, several xterms, and firefox).
>
> the second trace seems to be a cross-CPU wakeup bug. It's not
> completely clear from the trace what happened - but we measured the
> latency of a task (wmcube-3191), where the wakeup happened on CPU#0
> and wmcube-3191 was queued to CPU#1 which was idle at that time. The
> bug is that it wasnt until timestamp 306us that this actually happened
> - and CPU#1 was just idling around in default_idle() for no good
> reason. CPU#1 should have run wmcube-3191 at around timestamp 13us.
ok, managed to reproduce it on a HT box, and it turned out to be a bug
in the SMT scheduler: the dependent sleeper logic incorrectly delayed
high-prio tasks, causing these latencies. I fixed it in the -50-10
kernel - could you redo your tests with that kernel (or later versions)?
Ingo
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