From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iowait statistics
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:41:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE362B0.CA79EB33@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205151200.g4FC0MY13196@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
> On 14 May 2002 00:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > 4) on SMP systems the iowait time can be overestimated, no big
> > > deal IMHO but cheap suggestions for improvement are welcome
> >
> > I suspect that a number of these statistical accounting mechanisms
> > are going to break. The new irq-affinity code works awfully well.
> >
> > The kernel profiler in 2.5 doesn't work very well at present.
> > When investigating this, I ran a busy-wait process. It attached
> > itself to CPU #3 and that CPU received precisely zero interrupts
> > across a five minute period. So the profiler cunningly avoids profiling
> > busy CPUs, which is rather counter-productive. Fortunate that oprofile
> > uses NMI.
>
> What, even local APIC interrupts did not happen on CPU#3
> in these five mins?
CPU1 is busy:
quad:/home/akpm> cat /proc/interrupts ; sleep 10 ; cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
0: 36059 33847 38948 33846 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1 1 1 4 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 1 1 1 0 IO-APIC-edge GDB-stub
8: 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 0 1 0 0 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
14: 1 2 0 3 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 7558 7557 7633 8025 IO-APIC-edge ide1
19: 17088 17707 17210 18610 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, ide4, ide5
35: 38 71 56 174 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
38: 955 1798 584 517 IO-APIC-level eth0
58: 25368 19911 27931 20695 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
NMI: 164030 164030 164030 164030
LOC: 142543 142543 142542 142542
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
0: 36388 33847 39289 34178 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1 1 1 4 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 1 1 1 0 IO-APIC-edge GDB-stub
8: 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 0 1 0 0 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
14: 1 2 0 3 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 7565 7557 7633 8026 IO-APIC-edge ide1
19: 17088 17707 17210 18610 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, ide4, ide5
35: 38 71 56 174 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
38: 969 1798 590 525 IO-APIC-level eth0
58: 25368 19911 27931 20695 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
NMI: 165032 165032 165032 165032
LOC: 143545 143545 143544 143544
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-16 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-14 1:19 Rik van Riel
2002-05-14 2:18 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-14 12:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-15 17:02 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-16 7:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-05-14 15:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-14 16:36 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-14 16:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-15 17:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-15 14:03 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-15 20:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-15 16:13 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-15 16:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-15 17:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-15 18:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-15 18:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-15 18:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-15 18:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-15 19:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-16 11:42 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-16 9:49 ` Leigh Brown
2002-05-16 14:51 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-16 16:44 ` Leigh Brown
2002-05-17 8:02 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-16 11:14 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-15 15:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-16 10:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-14 18:19 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-15 1:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-15 1:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-15 14:39 ` Bill Davidsen
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