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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:29:17 +0100
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        Richard Todd <rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com>
Cc:        fluffy@fluffy.khv.ru, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexander Logvinov <avl@logvinov.com>
Subject:   Re: Regression in -current?
Message-ID:  <3bbf2fe11001240829k46d62476pda54d149c39ae7c3@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/1/24 Richard Todd <rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com>:
> Alexander Logvinov <avl@logvinov.com> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> On 24.01.2010 10:43 Dima Panov wrote:
>>> I see a strange regression since Friday's kernel, may be it's a kqueue-=
related.
>>> While building ports, now I never see 100% load of cpu, and portupgrade=
 -fa
>>> takes ~7 hours for ~40 ports. Updating to current state (~3am VLAT) doe=
sn't help.
>>>
>>> KDB and WITNESS/INVARIANTS disablen in kernel config
>
>> =C2=A0I have a similar problem with r202904 amd64 kernel with interestin=
g CPU
>> statistic:
>>
>> top output:
>>
>> last pid: =C2=A01885; =C2=A0load averages: =C2=A02.89, =C2=A01.56, =C2=
=A00.66 =C2=A0 =C2=A0up 0+00:02:47
>> 09:31:44
>> 72 processes: =C2=A03 running, 69 sleeping
>> _CPU: =C2=A00.0% user, =C2=A00.0% nice, =C2=A00.0% system, =C2=A00.0% in=
terrupt, =C2=A00.0% idle_
>> Mem: 120M Active, 39M Inact, 153M Wired, 6968K Cache, 65M Buf, 3565M Fre=
e
>> Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
>
> Yeah, I saw the same thing on my core2duo system (running in amd64 mode,
> dunno if that makes a difference.) =C2=A0Caused the system to go *really*=
 slow when
> powerd started and decided that since CPU usage was 0.00% it could safely
> throttle the CPU all the way down midway thru all the rc.d/* stuff
> executing. :-)
>
> As near as I can tell, the culprit is this rev (and the SVN #s you quote
> are consistent with this being the case):
>
> =C2=A0SVN rev 202387 on 2010-01-15 16:04:30Z by attilio
>
> =C2=A0Handling all the three clocks (hardclock, softclock, profclock) wit=
h the
> =C2=A0LAPIC may lead to aliasing for softclock and profclock because freq=
uencies
> =C2=A0are sized in order to fit mainly hardclock.
> =C2=A0atrtc used to take care of the softclock and profclock and it does =
still
> =C2=A0do, if the LAPIC can't handle the clocks properly.
>
> =C2=A0Revert the change when the LAPIC started taking charge of all three=
 of
> =C2=A0them and let atrtc handle softclock and profclock if not explicitly
> =C2=A0requested. Such request can be made setting !=3D 0 the new tunable
> =C2=A0machdep.lapic_allclocks or if the new device ATPIC is not present
> =C2=A0within the i386 kernel config (atrtc is linked to atpic presence).
>
> As a check, my current post-rev-202387 kernel has working clock if I boot=
 with
>
> =C2=A0machdep.lapic_allclocks=3D1

Can you all please do:

% sysctl kern.timecounter

Thanks,
Attilio



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