Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-09 Thread Jens Rehsack
John Baldwin wrote:
On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:

John Baldwin wrote:

Thanks, IRQ 16 was programmed as level, activelo, so it wasn't an
off by one error there.  Grr.
I've seen, but I didn't found a bios option to set it to edge.
Is there anything I can do on my machine to fix the problem, or
should Asus be notified for a bios update or ...?
No, level is correct.  The APIC code doesn't mask edge triggered
interrupts, and if it thought IRQ 16 was edge rather than level,
that could explain the high interrupt rate.  Since that isn't the
case I'm not sure why it's triggering so many interrupts.
Ok, but what I can do now to get my machine running with HTT again?
It's out main development machine and with the single-processor
config it runs mostly with a very high load. Is there any chance
to get it running just before the new interrupt code. Could it be
fixed?
Regards,
Jens
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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-09 Thread John Baldwin

On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, IRQ 16 was programmed as level, activelo, so it wasn't an
>> off by one error there.  Grr.
> 
> I've seen, but I didn't found a bios option to set it to edge.
> Is there anything I can do on my machine to fix the problem, or
> should Asus be notified for a bios update or ...?

No, level is correct.  The APIC code doesn't mask edge triggered
interrupts, and if it thought IRQ 16 was edge rather than level,
that could explain the high interrupt rate.  Since that isn't the
case I'm not sure why it's triggering so many interrupts.

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
John Baldwin wrote:

Thanks, IRQ 16 was programmed as level, activelo, so it wasn't an
off by one error there.  Grr.
I've seen, but I didn't found a bios option to set it to edge.
Is there anything I can do on my machine to fix the problem, or
should Asus be notified for a bios update or ...?
Jens

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread John Baldwin

On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:
>> 
>>>Lars Eggert wrote:
>>>
John Baldwin wrote:


>On 07-Nov-2003 Lars Eggert wrote:
> 
>>This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
>>thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...
>
>
>Really.  Does this only happen with ACPI enabled?

Don't know about "only", since I have never booted this machine without 
ACPI. I'll test next time I'm rebooting.
>>>
>>>Don't do it. I do it for testing a few minutes ago - and it
>>>prevents irq 16 from storming. But it does because the machine
>>>hangs at boot with:
>>>isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
>>>
>>>I let it probe for about 10 minutes (you'll never know :-)),
>>>but it wont do.
>> 
>> Grrr, ok.  Can you try the patch at
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/io_apic.patch and nab a boot -v
>> dmesg with ACPI enabled?  Thanks.
> 
> Attached. Or shall I upload it to a web-server, too?

Thanks, IRQ 16 was programmed as level, activelo, so it wasn't an
off by one error there.  Grr.

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
John Baldwin wrote:
On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:

Lars Eggert wrote:

John Baldwin wrote:


On 07-Nov-2003 Lars Eggert wrote:

This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...


Really.  Does this only happen with ACPI enabled?
Don't know about "only", since I have never booted this machine without 
ACPI. I'll test next time I'm rebooting.
Don't do it. I do it for testing a few minutes ago - and it
prevents irq 16 from storming. But it does because the machine
hangs at boot with:
isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
I let it probe for about 10 minutes (you'll never know :-)),
but it wont do.
Grrr, ok.  Can you try the patch at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/io_apic.patch and nab a boot -v
dmesg with ACPI enabled?  Thanks.
Attached. Or shall I upload it to a web-server, too?

Jens
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FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Fri Nov  7 22:43:13 GMT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STATLER
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc087f000.
Calibrating clock(s) ... i8254 clock: 1193214 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 2398855680 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2398.86-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xbfebfbff
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 1072889856 (1023 MB)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x1000 - 0x0009efff, 647168 bytes (158 pages)
0x0010 - 0x003f, 3145728 bytes (768 pages)
0x00c29000 - 0x3ed0afff, 1041113088 bytes (254178 pages)
avail memory = 1032667136 (984 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: 
APIC ID: physical 0, logical 0:0
APIC ID: physical 1, logical 0:1
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
APIC: CPU 0 has ACPI ID 1
APIC: CPU 1 has ACPI ID 2
bios32: Found BIOS32 Service Directory header at 0xc00f
bios32: Entry = 0xf0010 (c00f0010)  Rev = 0  Len = 1
pcibios: PCI BIOS entry at 0xf+0x31
pnpbios: Found PnP BIOS data at 0xc00f5580
pnpbios: Entry = f:616a  Rev = 1.0
Other BIOS signatures found:
MADT: Found IO APIC ID 2, Vector 0 at 0xfec0
ioapic0: intpin 0 -> ExtINT (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 1 -> irq 1 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 2 -> irq 2 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 3 -> irq 3 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 4 -> irq 4 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 5 -> irq 5 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 6 -> irq 6 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 7 -> irq 7 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 8 -> irq 8 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 9 -> irq 9 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 10 -> irq 10 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 11 -> irq 11 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 12 -> irq 12 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 13 -> irq 13 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 14 -> irq 14 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 15 -> irq 15 (edge, activehi)
ioapic0: intpin 16 -> irq 16 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 17 -> irq 17 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 18 -> irq 18 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 19 -> irq 19 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 20 -> irq 20 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 21 -> irq 21 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 22 -> irq 22 (level, activelo)
ioapic0: intpin 23 -> irq 23 (level, activelo)
MADT: intr override: source 0, irq 2
ioapic0: Routing IRQ 0 -> intpin 2
ioapic0: intpin 2 trigger: edge
ioapic0: intpin 2 polarity: active-hi
MADT: intr override: source 9, irq 9
ioapic0: intpin 9 trigger: level
ioapic0: intpin 9 polarity: active-hi
ioapic0  irqs 0-23 on motherboard
cpu0 BSP:
 ID: 0x   VER: 0x00050014 LDR: 0x0100 DFR: 0x0fff
  lint0: 0x00010700 lint1: 0x0400 TPR: 0x SVR: 0x01ff
random: 
mem: 
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
VESA: information block
56 45 53 41 00 03 43 57 00 c0 01 00 00 00 cd 52 
00 c0 00 02 04 01 58 57 00 c0 5f 57 00 c0 6b 57 
00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
VESA: 23 mode(s) found
VESA: v3.0, 32768k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc00c52cd (c00052cd)
VESA: Matrox Graphics Inc.
VESA: Matrox Matrox G550 00
null: 
acpi0:  on motherboard
pci_open(1):mode 1 addr port (0x0cf8) is 0x
pci_open(1a):   mode1res=0x8000 (0x8000)
pci_cfgcheck:   device 0 [class=06] [hdr=00] is there (id=25708086)
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 14 entries at 0xc00f5410
PCI-Only Interrupts: none
Location  Bus Device Pin  Link  IRQs
embedded28A   0x68  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   31A   0x62  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   31B   0x61  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   29A   0x60  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
emb

Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread John Baldwin

On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Lars Eggert wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07-Nov-2003 Lars Eggert wrote:
>>>
 Jens Rehsack wrote:

> interrupt  total   rate
> irq1: atkbd0 512  2
> irq8: rtc  23419127
> irq13: npx01  0
> irq14: ata0 4422 24
> irq15: ata1   82  0
> irq16: uhci0 uhci3   5379815  29238


 This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
 thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...
>>>
>>>
>>> Really.  Does this only happen with ACPI enabled?
>> 
>> Don't know about "only", since I have never booted this machine without 
>> ACPI. I'll test next time I'm rebooting.
> 
> Don't do it. I do it for testing a few minutes ago - and it
> prevents irq 16 from storming. But it does because the machine
> hangs at boot with:
> isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
> 
> I let it probe for about 10 minutes (you'll never know :-)),
> but it wont do.

Grrr, ok.  Can you try the patch at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/io_apic.patch and nab a boot -v
dmesg with ACPI enabled?  Thanks.

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
Lars Eggert wrote:
John Baldwin wrote:

On 07-Nov-2003 Lars Eggert wrote:

Jens Rehsack wrote:

interrupt  total   rate
irq1: atkbd0 512  2
irq8: rtc  23419127
irq13: npx01  0
irq14: ata0 4422 24
irq15: ata1   82  0
irq16: uhci0 uhci3   5379815  29238


This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...


Really.  Does this only happen with ACPI enabled?
Don't know about "only", since I have never booted this machine without 
ACPI. I'll test next time I'm rebooting.
Don't do it. I do it for testing a few minutes ago - and it
prevents irq 16 from storming. But it does because the machine
hangs at boot with:
isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
I let it probe for about 10 minutes (you'll never know :-)),
but it wont do.
Jens

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Lars Eggert
John Baldwin wrote:
On 07-Nov-2003 Lars Eggert wrote:

Jens Rehsack wrote:

interrupt  total   rate
irq1: atkbd0 512  2
irq8: rtc  23419127
irq13: npx01  0
irq14: ata0 4422 24
irq15: ata1   82  0
irq16: uhci0 uhci3   5379815  29238
This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...
Really.  Does this only happen with ACPI enabled?
Don't know about "only", since I have never booted this machine without 
ACPI. I'll test next time I'm rebooting.

Lars
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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread John Baldwin

On 07-Nov-2003 Lars Eggert wrote:
> Jens Rehsack wrote:
>> interrupt  total   rate
>> irq1: atkbd0 512  2
>> irq8: rtc  23419127
>> irq13: npx01  0
>> irq14: ata0 4422 24
>> irq15: ata1   82  0
>> irq16: uhci0 uhci3   5379815  29238
> 
> This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
> thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...

Really.  Does this only happen with ACPI enabled?

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
Lars Eggert wrote:
Jens Rehsack wrote:

interrupt  total   rate
irq1: atkbd0 512  2
irq8: rtc  23419127
irq13: npx01  0
irq14: ata0 4422 24
irq15: ata1   82  0
irq16: uhci0 uhci3   5379815  29238


This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...
But I cannot unload the uhci driver, 'cause I need my mouse
when using X. Ok, it would work even without, but I think
then will I become the bottleneck, not irq 16 ;-)
Jens

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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Lars Eggert
Jens Rehsack wrote:
interrupt  total   rate
irq1: atkbd0 512  2
irq8: rtc  23419127
irq13: npx01  0
irq14: ata0 4422 24
irq15: ata1   82  0
irq16: uhci0 uhci3   5379815  29238
This looks similar to what I described in the "fwohci0 running wild" 
thread. In both cases, irq16 seems to cause the problem...

Lars
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Re: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
John Baldwin wrote:
On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:

Hi,

I recompiled my system today and when it came up again,
it was terrible slow. Using top I've seen, that there're
around 25% cpu-time is used to handle interrupts.
The kernel was configured using SMP ('cause it's a HTT
enabled CPU) and APIC. Setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
to 1 didn't change anything. Simply getting a few mails
(around 30) takes about 20 minutes. Most of time while
getting the mails my mozilla was in "*Giant" state,
what shouldn't be good, should it?
I've recompiled the kernel without SMP and APIC and
now the system's behaviour is more "normal". Is the
behaviour of the new interrupt code better on real
multiprocessor systems?
Can you do a 'vmstat -i' under your SMP kernel to see where
all the interrupts are coming from?  It sounds like a device
is interrupt storming.  There has been report of this so far
with fwohci(4).
It's attached as well as the dmesg output booting with -v.

Jens

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FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Fri Nov  7 10:12:42 GMT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STATLER
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel.old/kernel" at 0xc087f000.
Calibrating clock(s) ... i8254 clock: 1193211 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 2398854804 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2398.85-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xbfebfbff
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 1072889856 (1023 MB)
Physical memory chunk(s):
0x1000 - 0x0009efff, 647168 bytes (158 pages)
0x0010 - 0x003f, 3145728 bytes (768 pages)
0x00c29000 - 0x3ed0afff, 1041113088 bytes (254178 pages)
avail memory = 1032667136 (984 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: 
APIC ID: physical 0, logical 0:0
APIC ID: physical 1, logical 0:1
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
APIC: CPU 0 has ACPI ID 1
APIC: CPU 1 has ACPI ID 2
bios32: Found BIOS32 Service Directory header at 0xc00f
bios32: Entry = 0xf0010 (c00f0010)  Rev = 0  Len = 1
pcibios: PCI BIOS entry at 0xf+0x31
pnpbios: Found PnP BIOS data at 0xc00f5580
pnpbios: Entry = f:616a  Rev = 1.0
Other BIOS signatures found:
MADT: Found IO APIC ID 2, Vector 0 at 0xfec0
ioapic0: intpin 0 -> ExtINT
ioapic0: intpin 1 -> irq 1
ioapic0: intpin 2 -> irq 2
ioapic0: intpin 3 -> irq 3
ioapic0: intpin 4 -> irq 4
ioapic0: intpin 5 -> irq 5
ioapic0: intpin 6 -> irq 6
ioapic0: intpin 7 -> irq 7
ioapic0: intpin 8 -> irq 8
ioapic0: intpin 9 -> irq 9
ioapic0: intpin 10 -> irq 10
ioapic0: intpin 11 -> irq 11
ioapic0: intpin 12 -> irq 12
ioapic0: intpin 13 -> irq 13
ioapic0: intpin 14 -> irq 14
ioapic0: intpin 15 -> irq 15
ioapic0: intpin 16 -> irq 16
ioapic0: intpin 17 -> irq 17
ioapic0: intpin 18 -> irq 18
ioapic0: intpin 19 -> irq 19
ioapic0: intpin 20 -> irq 20
ioapic0: intpin 21 -> irq 21
ioapic0: intpin 22 -> irq 22
ioapic0: intpin 23 -> irq 23
MADT: intr override: source 0, irq 2
ioapic0: Routing IRQ 0 -> intpin 2
ioapic0: intpin 2 trigger: edge
ioapic0: intpin 2 polarity: active-hi
MADT: intr override: source 9, irq 9
ioapic0: intpin 9 trigger: level
ioapic0: intpin 9 polarity: active-hi
ioapic0  irqs 0-23 on motherboard
cpu0 BSP:
 ID: 0x   VER: 0x00050014 LDR: 0x0100 DFR: 0x0fff
  lint0: 0x00010700 lint1: 0x0400 TPR: 0x SVR: 0x01ff
random: 
mem: 
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
VESA: information block
56 45 53 41 00 03 43 57 00 c0 01 00 00 00 cd 52 
00 c0 00 02 04 01 58 57 00 c0 5f 57 00 c0 6b 57 
00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
VESA: 23 mode(s) found
VESA: v3.0, 32768k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc00c52cd (c00052cd)
VESA: Matrox Graphics Inc.
VESA: Matrox Matrox G550 00
null: 
acpi0:  on motherboard
pci_open(1):mode 1 addr port (0x0cf8) is 0x
pci_open(1a):   mode1res=0x8000 (0x8000)
pci_cfgcheck:   device 0 [class=06] [hdr=00] is there (id=25708086)
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 14 entries at 0xc00f5410
PCI-Only Interrupts: none
Location  Bus Device Pin  Link  IRQs
embedded28A   0x68  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   31A   0x62  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   31B   0x61  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   29A   0x60  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   29B   0x63  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   29C   0x62  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded0   29D   0x6b  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded01A   0x60  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded01B   0x61  3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15
embedded03A   0x60  3 4 5 6

RE: New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread John Baldwin

On 07-Nov-2003 Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recompiled my system today and when it came up again,
> it was terrible slow. Using top I've seen, that there're
> around 25% cpu-time is used to handle interrupts.
> The kernel was configured using SMP ('cause it's a HTT
> enabled CPU) and APIC. Setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
> to 1 didn't change anything. Simply getting a few mails
> (around 30) takes about 20 minutes. Most of time while
> getting the mails my mozilla was in "*Giant" state,
> what shouldn't be good, should it?
> 
> I've recompiled the kernel without SMP and APIC and
> now the system's behaviour is more "normal". Is the
> behaviour of the new interrupt code better on real
> multiprocessor systems?

Can you do a 'vmstat -i' under your SMP kernel to see where
all the interrupts are coming from?  It sounds like a device
is interrupt storming.  There has been report of this so far
with fwohci(4).

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New interrupt code slows hyperthreading down

2003-11-07 Thread Jens Rehsack
Hi,

I recompiled my system today and when it came up again,
it was terrible slow. Using top I've seen, that there're
around 25% cpu-time is used to handle interrupts.
The kernel was configured using SMP ('cause it's a HTT
enabled CPU) and APIC. Setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
to 1 didn't change anything. Simply getting a few mails
(around 30) takes about 20 minutes. Most of time while
getting the mails my mozilla was in "*Giant" state,
what shouldn't be good, should it?
I've recompiled the kernel without SMP and APIC and
now the system's behaviour is more "normal". Is the
behaviour of the new interrupt code better on real
multiprocessor systems?
Regards,
--
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