On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> another thing - Peter observed skipping on NOHZ. Does your skipping go
> away if you boot with 'nohz' and/or with CONFIG_NOHZ=y disabled in the
> .config?

Just realized that I forgot to reply to this...

Already tried that with .24 (<200804111718.56958.elendil@planet.nl>):

! On Friday 11 April 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
! > I'm having some issue on my own desktop - I get occasional latencies of
! > up to 1 second! It seems to be related to NO_HZ, because when I run a
! > simple while loop to keep the cpu busy, or boot with nohz=off it
! > doesn't seem to happen.
! >
! > Could you try that, just to see if we're seeing the same thing?
!
! Booted with nohz=off, but it does not seem to make any difference for me.
! I still get the music skips and chew still gives the high latencies.
!
! $ ./chew2
! pid 31568 preempted 4022 us after 1376 us
! pid 31568 preempted 6303 us after 6177 us
! pid 31568 preempted 8836 us after 7963 us
! pid 31568 preempted 13134 us after 7903 us
! pid 31568 preempted 20533 us after 9496 us
! pid 31568 preempted 22957 us after 8556 us
! pid 31568 preempted 28693 us after 9518 us
! pid 31568 preempted 251718 us after 8485 us
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