On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:26:08AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 12:04 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: > > > Jack Winter confirmed to see similiar NOHZ messages also on > > v3.4.9-rt17 kernel (CPU: Core2Duo when no suspend performed): > > > > [15223.171585] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08 > > These can be caused by blocking while holding local_softirq_lock. > > Even with per softirq threads, and then (yet more overhead) splitting > the lock to make sure one softirq type can't block another, _and_ only > griping if the lock for the pending softirq is _not_ held, seems the > little bugger can still be triggered very rarely by syn flood induced > handler bail/raise. Annoying little gripe :) Hmmm... Now that you mention it, if I understand correctly, the conversion of spinlocks to sleeplocks in -rt would seem to invalidate this particular diagnostic completely. So, what am I missing? Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
