Subject : [rc8] Regression: key repeats and skips in music during compilation Submitter : Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Date : 2008-04-04 12:22 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/4/83 Handled-By : Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.24. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
This really does sound like something I've been seeing post 2.6.25-rc5 Audio will stutter when doing a kernel compile It does also happen when not much else is seemingly going on. When it happens the desktop also seems to stutter momentarily. Also while playing Frets on Fire, there are a periodic stutters. However I'm not seeing key repeats. 2.6.25-rc5 is fine (IIRC 2.6.25-rc5-git5 is also OK) 2.6.25-rc6 is bad. Under this kernel the music will stutter for a second then rhythmbox will be locked up consuming 99% cpu. IIRC from a strace, doing lot's of futex stuff. 2.6.25-rc8 is slightly less worse in that rhythmbox doesn't lock up. Last tried kernel is 2.6.25-rc8-git6 System is a single CPU AMD Athlon XP 1800+ running Fedora 8
Bug has been traced to this change (committed between -rc5 and -rc6): commit e22ecef1d2658ba54ed7d3fdb5d60829fb434c23 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Fri Mar 14 22:16:08 2008 +0100 sched: fix fair sleepers Fair sleepers need to scale their latency target down by runqueue weight. Otherwise busy systems will gain ever larger sleep bonus. Verified by reverting that patch on top of -rc8. Audio skips disappeared. Thanks to Peter for providing a patch series to test with.
fixed by commit e2df9e0905136eebeca66eb9a994ca48d0fa7990