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Message-Id: <1164747854.15887.48.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:04:14 -0800
From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@...ma.Stanford.EDU>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: nando@...ma.Stanford.EDU,
"Linux-Kernel," <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 12:37 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@...ma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when
> > > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of
> > > qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25, qjackctl 0.2.21):
> >
> > > ( japa-4096 |#0): new 17 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( beagled-3412 |#1): new 19 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( IRQ 18-1081 |#1): new 26 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( snd-4040 |#1): new 1107 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( japa-4096 |#0): new 1445 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( japa-4096 |#0): new 2110 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( qjackctl-4038 |#1): new 2328 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( japa-4096 |#0): new 2548 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> > > ( IRQ 18-1081 |#0): new 10291 us maximum-latency wakeup.
> >
> > hm, lets fix this. Could you enable tracing (on the yum rpm) via:
> >
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/trace_enabled
> >
> > does /proc/latency_trace have any meaningful events included for such a
> > long delay? If not then it would be nice to rebuild the kernel with
> > CONFIG_LATENCY_TRACING - and in any case my previous suggestion holds
> > too: booting with maxcpus=1 to reproduce the latencies will give easier
> > to interpret latency traces.
>
> Sorry, it looks like it is an smp issue. Booting with maxcpus=1 reduces
> the xrun reports significantly (only three so far but very short, in the
> range of 0.029 to 0.041 ms). The long ones seem to have gone away, so
> far...
Strange, I rebooted smp and I'm not seeing the very long xruns I was
seeing before, only short ones as reported above. Here are some traces,
but nothing that makes sense I think.
I'll turn off the machine and cold boot it...)
-- Fernando
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.18-1.0001.3.rt8.fc6.ccrma
--------------------------------------------------------------------
latency: 16023 us, #8/8, CPU#0 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:1 HP:1 #P:2)
-----------------
| task: jackd-3739 (uid:500 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:62)
-----------------
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
qjackctl-3740 0Dn.1 1us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup <<...>-3739>
(37 0)
qjackctl-3740 0Dn.1 3us : try_to_wake_up <<...>-3739> (162 161)
qjackctl-3740 0Dn.1 4us : trace_special_sym (ffffffff802668da 0 0)
<...>-3739 1D..2 8us : thread_return <softirq--17> (199 162)
<...>-3739 1D..1 10us+: trace_stop_sched_switched <<...>-3739> (37
1)
<...>-3739 1...1 13us : thread_return (thread_return)
vim:ft=help
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.18-1.0001.3.rt8.fc6.ccrma
--------------------------------------------------------------------
latency: 71 us, #14/14, CPU#1 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:1 HP:1 #P:2)
-----------------
| task: IRQ 18-813 (uid:0 nice:-5 policy:1 rt_prio:70)
-----------------
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
<idle>-0 1Dnh3 3us+: __trace_start_sched_wakeup <<...>-813> (29
1)
<idle>-0 1Dnh3 8us+: try_to_wake_up <<...>-813> (170 20)
<idle>-0 1Dnh1 22us+: do_IRQ (ffffffff8026f32c 12 0)
<idle>-0 1Dnh2 25us+: trace_special_sym (ffffffff8028f2ad 0 0)
<idle>-0 1Dnh3 29us+: __activate_task <<...>-412> (149 1)
<idle>-0 1Dnh3 33us+: try_to_wake_up <<...>-412> (149 20)
<idle>-0 1.n.1 40us+: hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (d48a31262d 0)
<idle>-0 1Dn.2 44us+: enqueue_hrtimer (d48a527afd
ffff81000407a950)
<idle>-0 1Dn.1 52us+: trace_special_sym (ffffffff8024b93e 0 0)
<...>-813 1D..2 60us+: thread_return <<idle>-0> (20 170)
<...>-813 1D..1 64us+: trace_stop_sched_switched <<...>-813> (29
1)
<...>-813 1...1 71us : thread_return (thread_return)
vim:ft=help
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.18-1.0001.3.rt8.fc6.ccrma
--------------------------------------------------------------------
latency: 2255 us, #11/11, CPU#0 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:1 HP:1 #P:2)
-----------------
| task: japa-3782 (uid:500 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:61)
-----------------
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
<idle>-0 0Dnh2 2236us : hrtimer_interrupt (ec6e49749d
ffff81006a68ddc8)
<idle>-0 0Dnh2 2237us : trace_special_sym (ffffffff8028f2ad 0 0)
<idle>-0 0Dnh3 2239us : effective_prio <<...>-3619> (-5 -5)
<idle>-0 0Dnh3 2241us : __activate_task <<...>-3619> (-5 1)
<idle>-0 0Dnh3 2243us+: try_to_wake_up <<...>-3619> (-5 20)
<idle>-0 0Dn.1 2246us : trace_special_sym (ffffffff8024b93e 0 0)
<...>-3782 0D..2 2250us : thread_return <<idle>-0> (20 161)
<...>-3782 0D..1 2252us+: trace_stop_sched_switched <<...>-3782> (38
0)
<...>-3782 0...1 2255us : thread_return (thread_return)
vim:ft=help
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