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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Busy mouse WAS: Re: Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?
Date: Thu,  7 Apr 2011 16:19:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8a0c97b996aaea2080b1f845c3c7a0d@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867hb5ygqt.fsf@cmarib.ramside>

> I don't have "*nomp=1" in plan9.ini, but I am running the 9atom kernel
> you gave me.  :) When it boots, it outputs the message "nomp: no mp
> structure".

i ran some actual tests, and it turns out that i can get
1515 interrupts/sec and 1950 syscalls/sec just by moving my
usb mouse constantly.  the load average is still 0, and the
interrupt time is <= 3%

so if you are seeing a performance problem just due to
the mouse, the i would think that the fact that your machine
is doing 8259-style interrupts has something to do with it.

eio processing on 8259-style interrupts can take a long time.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-07 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-03 22:30 [9fans] " smiley at zenzebra.mv.com
2011-04-03 23:22 ` pmarin
2011-04-03 23:41 ` Tristan Plumb
2011-04-04  2:02   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-04  2:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04  7:54     ` Tristan Plumb
2011-04-04  9:26     ` roger peppe
2011-04-04 21:35       ` smiley
2011-04-04 21:46         ` Anthony Sorace
2011-04-04 22:03           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05  8:57           ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-04 22:00         ` Oleg Finkelshteyn
2011-04-04 22:33         ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-04 23:01         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-04-05  8:58         ` yy
2011-04-05 19:54           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-05 19:56             ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 20:54               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-05 21:53                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-04-06 16:32                   ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-06 16:43                     ` roger peppe
2011-04-06 18:15                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-06 18:37                         ` Yaroslav
2011-04-07  8:45                           ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-06 18:18                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-07  8:45                     ` Greg Comeau
2011-04-05  9:10         ` roger peppe
2011-04-05 15:47           ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 15:52             ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-05 15:57               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 16:04               ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-04-05 17:17                 ` ron minnich
2011-04-05 17:49             ` smiley
2011-04-05 18:01               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 19:50               ` Yaroslav
2011-04-06 15:27                 ` smiley
2011-04-06 15:32                   ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-07  1:26                     ` [9fans] Busy mouse WAS: " smiley
2011-04-07 11:49                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-07 19:59                         ` smiley
2011-04-07 20:19                           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-04-09 12:26                             ` smiley
2011-04-09 12:33                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-05 16:28         ` [9fans] " dexen deVries
2011-04-05 17:05         ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-03 23:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-04-04  3:01 ` erik quanstrom

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