On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 10:34 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Can you try the following, please?
> 
> Enable function tracer and hrtimer events manually. Then watch the irq
> count on cpu3. If it stalls or becomes slow, then stop the trace with
> 
>       echo 0 >/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
> 
> If the overhead of the function tracer hides the problem, then try just
> with hrtimer, sched_switch and irq events.

Yeah, function tracer hides it.  After some fiddling with buffer size to
be able to ever see a tick, I finally have a trace trimmed with a tick
on each end, 175ms gap between them.  It's still 1.5 after xz, sending
off list.

        -Mike


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