From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 13:20:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B0137B401 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.freebsd-services.com (survey.codeburst.net [195.149.39.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D8C43FCB for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@freebsd-services.com) Received: from [192.168.7.2] (freebsd.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.249.198]) by mx0.freebsd-services.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC801B211; Sun, 11 May 2003 21:20:30 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030511.134504.85393710.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <1052570246.27195.6.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> <22333.1052574519@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030511.134504.85393710.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052684139.4921.3.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 11 May 2003 21:15:41 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt latency problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:20:34 -0000 On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 20:45, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <22333.1052574519@critter.freebsd.dk> > "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: > : In message <1052570246.27195.6.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com>, Paul Richards wr > : ites: > : >I'm having real problems with current with heavy disk activity. > : > > : >When working in X and updating ports which causes a lot of disk activity > : >I get *very* poor interactive responses. Keypresses can not appear for > : >seconds and mouse movement is very jerky and unresponsive. > : > > : >I'm wondering if something is holding locks a long time in interrupt > : >handlers and causing mouse/keyboard interrupts to be lost? > : > : We have this lock called "Giant" which we're trying to get rid off... > > Actually, this may be a problem in the acpi code. I have at least one > battery that causes my system to 'freeze' for a while. The mouse > interrupts aren't lost, per se, but just deferred too long. That was > before the latest acpi upgrade, and I've not tried the offending > battery since then (I think that the zero length messages are related > to querrying the battery status, but haven't booted windows to find > out for sure). Hmm, that an intersting line of thought. The symptoms sound similar, that interrupts aren't necessarily been missed, since I can type when things seem locked up then it all appears. I get boatloads of these, they stream past continuously. ACPI-0448: *** Error: AcpiEvGpeDispatch: No handler or method for GPE[0], disabling event I have no idea what they mean though :-) I wonder if that might have something to do with it, or if it's triggering a problem somewhere in the dmesg buffer that's causing locks to be held too long. -- Paul Richards