linux-kernel - RE: 2.6.19-rc1 genirq causes either boot hang or "do

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Message-Id: <1160408360.3000.227.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:39:20 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@...SYS.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@...el.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Subject: RE: 2.6.19-rc1 genirq causes either boot hang or "do_IRQ: cannot
	handle IRQ -1"

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:28 -0500, Protasevich, Natalie wrote:

> I'd like also to question current policies of user space irqbalanced. It
> seems to just go round-robin without much heuristics involved.

only for the timer interrupt and only because "people" didn't want to
see it bound to a specific CPU. For all others there's quite some
heuristics actually

>  We are
> seeing loss of timer interrupts on our systems - and the more processors
> the more noticeable it is, but it starts even on 8x partitions; on 48x
> system I see about 50% loss, on both ia32 and x86_64 (haven't checked on
> ia64 yet). With say 16 threads it is unsettling to see 70% overall idle
> time, and still only 40-50% of interrupts go through. System's time is
> not affected, so the problem is on the back burner for now :) It's not
> clear yet whether this is software or hardware fault, 

I'd call it a hardware fault. But them I'm biased.


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