Andy Walls <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 19:23 -0400, Michael Cook wrote:
>> I recently moved my pvr-150 from one computer to another, and after
>> having done that I found that mythtv would fail recording
>> occasionally, about once a day or so I would have to reboot.  The
>> error messages that appeared in /var/log were like this:
>> 
>>   ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
>>   ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
>> 
>> and
>> 
>>   MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - ivtv driver has stopped 
>> responding
>> 
>> After googling those error messages for a while, it occurred to me
>> to try moving my pvr-150 card from one pci slot to another.  After I
>> did that, the failures seem to have stopped (after four days, no
>> failures).
>> 
>> Is this information interesting?
>
> Sort of.  It would be more interesting with the output of
>
> $ cat /proc/interrupts
> $ /sbin/lspci -vvv
>
> So we can see what other Linux driver may be affecting the ivtv driver's
> interrupt service.

$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0       
  0:        178   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:         71   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  4:      38492   IO-APIC-edge      serial
  6:          5   IO-APIC-edge      floppy
  7:          0   IO-APIC-edge      parport0
  8:          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:        150   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 14:    1047210   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
 15:    1924421   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix
 16:          4   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb2
 17:   10205890   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ivtv0, Intel 82801DB-ICH4
 18:    5673605   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4, eth0
 19:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
 23:   21274273   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1
NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:   50668949   Local timer interrupts
RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:          0   Function call interrupts
TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0
$ /sbin/lspci -vvv
bash: /sbin/lspci: No such file or directory
$ type -all lspci
lspci is /usr/bin/lspci
lspci is /usr/X11R6/bin/lspci
$ lspci -vvv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM 
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
        Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE 
Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: Memory at ff680000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel modules: intelfb

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 4: I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
        Region 4: I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
        Region 4: I/O ports at ff40 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI 
Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 23
        Region 0: Memory at ffa00800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
        I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
        Memory behind bridge: ff800000-ff9fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f8000000-fbffffff
        Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
                PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface 
Bridge (rev 01)
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01) 
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
        Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
        Region 5: Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus 
Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
        Region 4: I/O ports at dc80 [size=32]
        Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Region 1: I/O ports at dc40 [size=64]
        Region 2: Memory at ffa00400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Region 3: Memory at ffa00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
        Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) 
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device 8003
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ivtv
        Kernel modules: ivtv

01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 002e
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64 (63750ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
        Region 0: Memory at ff8e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at ecc0 [size=64]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: e1000
        Kernel modules: e1000

$ 

Michael

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