On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > So, I guess the question is, whether we want to try and make the system > fail in a more meaningful way -- kind of like the rt throttling message > does - as it lets users know they've hit the wall? Something watching That Joe Doe should have noticed the throttler message, which came before the stall, shouldn't he? > for kstat_incr_softirqs traffic perhaps? Or other options? The rcu stall detector could use the softirq counter and if it did not change in the stall period print: "Caused by softirq starvation" or something like that. Thanks, tglx -- 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
