Re: wake_up() takes long time to return

On 1/20/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:54 +0530, kalash nainwal wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We've a kernel (n/w) module, which sits over ethernet. Whenever a pkt
> is received (in softirq), after doing some minimal processing,
> wake_up() is called to wake up another kernel thread which does rest
> (bulk) of the processing.
>
> We notice that this wake_up() call is sometimes taking as long as 48
> milli-seconds to return. This happens around 10 times out of 10M. We
> earlier thought its possibly because of the contention on rq->lock,
> but we see the same phenomenon even on a uniprocessor box. So obviosly
> thats not the case.
>
> We can't figure out any other reason for wake_up() to take this much
> time? As this call comes directly in our (receive) hotpath, we're very
> concerned. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Hi,

unfortunately you didn't provide your driver code or a link to it, so
people who want to help you would have to guess in the dark... could you
reply to this email with the pointer to the code?

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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Hi Arjan,

I won't pretend I'm working on an open-source driver. I personally
would be more than happy to share the driver code, but doing so would
probably cost me my job :)

and so...I won't expect anyone to help me with my code either.

Just wanted to know if wake_up is known to take this long to return?
(some known linux quirk may be?) If so then under what conditions? or
it _definitely_ would be my code only that's screwing up?

I'm using do_gettimeofday() before and after wake_up() to measure this time.

Thanks and regards,
-Kalash
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