On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 09:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Strange. By the time it got around to printing the stall, no one was > stalling: > > [ 100.409012] INFO: rcu_preempt_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: {} (detected by 21, t=60002 jiffies) > > Now it -is- possible for the stall to end just as we get ready to detect > it, but that window is really really small. The most recent occurrence > of this sort of thing was due misconfigured timekeeping, but I don't see > any sign of that in the trace. > > This happens repeatedly? Yeah. When I put -rt9 on the UV box, it was doing the just idling, and boom thing I saw with earlier releases on both my Q6600 and x3550 M3 boxes. -rt10 seems to have just changed the timing. I'll update the x3550 M3, and see if it still gripes. UV isn't virgin source, has to be twiddled a little. (symptom was identical though) -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html