On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Paweł Staszewski wrote: > Hello > > I have strange problem with cpu load and acpi_os_read_port > please look at > perf top - output: > PerfTop: 1852 irqs/sec kernel:99.4% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], > (all, 16 CPUs) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > samples pcnt function DSO > _______ _____ _______________________________ _________________ > > 2217.00 13.7% acpi_os_read_port [kernel.kallsyms] curious. does /proc/interrupts show you are receiving acpi interrupts? if yes, what do you see with 'grep . /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/*'? what do you see with grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpuidle/*/* and if there are IO states, any change if you boot with "idle=halt" or "idle=mwait"? thanks, -Len Brown Intel Open Source Technology Center > 613.00 3.8% igb_poll [kernel.kallsyms] > 546.00 3.4% acpi_idle_enter_bm [kernel.kallsyms] > 482.00 3.0% _raw_spin_lock [kernel.kallsyms] > 469.00 2.9% ipt_do_table [kernel.kallsyms] > 415.00 2.6% find_busiest_group [kernel.kallsyms] > 341.00 2.1% tick_dev_program_event [kernel.kallsyms] > 299.00 1.9% u32_classify [kernel.kallsyms] > 299.00 1.9% __slab_free [kernel.kallsyms] > 294.00 1.8% timer_stats_update_stats [kernel.kallsyms] > 235.00 1.5% leave_mm [kernel.kallsyms] > 231.00 1.4% skb_release_data [kernel.kallsyms] > 227.00 1.4% __hrtimer_start_range_ns [kernel.kallsyms] > 220.00 1.4% tick_program_event [kernel.kallsyms] > 211.00 1.3% irq_entries_start [kernel.kallsyms] > 206.00 1.3% cpuidle_idle_call [kernel.kallsyms] > 181.00 1.1% acpi_hw_validate_io_request [kernel.kallsyms] > 178.00 1.1% apic_timer_interrupt [kernel.kallsyms] > 172.00 1.1% consume_skb [kernel.kallsyms] > 162.00 1.0% getnstimeofday [kernel.kallsyms] > 162.00 1.0% rb_erase [kernel.kallsyms] > 161.00 1.0% read_tsc [kernel.kallsyms] > 154.00 1.0% hrtimer_interrupt [kernel.kallsyms] > 148.00 0.9% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore [kernel.kallsyms] > 148.00 0.9% napi_schedule [kernel.kallsyms] > 136.00 0.8% __do_softirq [kernel.kallsyms] > 135.00 0.8% dma_issue_pending_all [kernel.kallsyms] > 130.00 0.8% virt_to_head_page [kernel.kallsyms] > 125.00 0.8% clockevents_program_event [kernel.kallsyms] > 118.00 0.7% ladder_select_state [kernel.kallsyms] > 114.00 0.7% hrtimer_force_reprogram [kernel.kallsyms] > 108.00 0.7% timekeeping_get_ns [kernel.kallsyms] > 107.00 0.7% __dma_has_cap [kernel.kallsyms] > 105.00 0.7% dev_queue_xmit [kernel.kallsyms] > 103.00 0.6% acpi_idle_do_entry [kernel.kallsyms] > 102.00 0.6% kfree [kernel.kallsyms] > 98.00 0.6% sched_clock [kernel.kallsyms] > 95.00 0.6% load_balance [kernel.kallsyms] > 95.00 0.6% pskb_expand_head [kernel.kallsyms] > 88.00 0.5% kmem_cache_free [kernel.kallsyms] > 86.00 0.5% run_timer_softirq [kernel.kallsyms] > 84.00 0.5% __rcu_pending [kernel.kallsyms] > 82.00 0.5% acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter [kernel.kallsyms] > 80.00 0.5% notifier_call_chain [kernel.kallsyms] > 80.00 0.5% acpi_hw_read_port [kernel.kallsyms] > 79.00 0.5% nf_iterate [kernel.kallsyms] > 77.00 0.5% dev_gro_receive [kernel.kallsyms] > 77.00 0.5% rb_insert_color [kernel.kallsyms] > 75.00 0.5% find_next_bit [kernel.kallsyms] > 74.00 0.5% skb_header_pointer [kernel.kallsyms] > 72.00 0.4% run_posix_cpu_timers [kernel.kallsyms] > 72.00 0.4% hfsc_enqueue [kernel.kallsyms] > 69.00 0.4% run_rebalance_domains [kernel.kallsyms] > 68.00 0.4% __napi_complete [kernel.kallsyms] > 67.00 0.4% ktime_get [kernel.kallsyms] > 67.00 0.4% scheduler_tick [kernel.kallsyms] > 66.00 0.4% skb_release_head_state [kernel.kallsyms] > 64.00 0.4% __run_hrtimer [kernel.kallsyms] > 64.00 0.4% acpi_hw_validate_register [kernel.kallsyms] > 62.00 0.4% ip_route_input_common [kernel.kallsyms] > > > mpstat -P 1,2 1 10 > Linux 2.6.35-rc5 (eP-RTR-IX-01) 07/22/10 _x86_64_ (16 > CPU) > > 23:39:26 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal > %guest %idle > 23:39:27 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 52.00 0.00 > 0.00 48.00 > 23:39:27 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.00 0.00 > 0.00 83.00 > 23:39:28 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 39.00 0.00 > 0.00 61.00 > 23:39:28 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 > 0.00 92.00 > 23:39:29 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 47.00 0.00 > 0.00 53.00 > 23:39:29 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 > 0.00 91.00 > 23:39:30 1 58.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 42.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 > 23:39:30 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 > 0.00 82.00 > 23:39:31 1 9.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 51.00 0.00 > 0.00 40.00 > 23:39:31 2 2.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 > 0.00 80.00 > 23:39:32 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 39.00 0.00 > 0.00 61.00 > 23:39:32 2 2.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.00 0.00 > 0.00 78.00 > 23:39:33 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 48.00 0.00 > 0.00 52.00 > 23:39:33 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 13.00 0.00 > 0.00 87.00 > 23:39:34 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 52.00 0.00 > 0.00 48.00 > 23:39:34 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 > 0.00 91.00 > 23:39:35 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 52.00 0.00 > 0.00 48.00 > 23:39:35 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 > 0.00 82.00 > 23:39:36 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 0.00 > 0.00 50.00 > 23:39:36 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 > 0.00 91.00 > Average: 1 6.70 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 47.20 0.00 > 0.00 46.10 > Average: 2 0.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 13.90 0.00 > 0.00 85.70 > > Server is acting as a bgp router - 500Mbit/s RX / 500Mbit/s TX traffic. > But the topper of cpu load is acpi_os_read_port - why ? > > > Thanks > Pawel > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >