Am 17.02.2014 22:50, schrieb Gilles Chanteperdrix:
> On 02/17/2014 10:14 PM, Christian Göbeler wrote:
>> Am 17.02.2014 18:52, schrieb Gilles Chanteperdrix:
>>> On 02/17/2014 06:47 PM, Christian Göbeler wrote:
>>>> also disabled SMI by using the workaround described in the wiki
>>>> (xeno_hal.smi=1)
>>> Most importantly, after you have booted doing that run
>>>
>>> dmesg | grep -i smi
>>>
>>> to See if the SMI workaround actually worked.
>>>
>>>
>> dmesg shows the following smi messages:
>>
>> [    0.000000] Command line:
>> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-xenomai-2.6.3
>> root=UUID=c01a5565-8f04-4959-a6a0-1bc4e920a017 ro text xeno_hal.smi=1
>> pci=nomsi nomodeset
>> [    0.000000] Kernel command line:
>> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-xenomai-2.6.3
>> root=UUID=c01a5565-8f04-4959-a6a0-1bc4e920a017 ro text xeno_hal.smi=1
>> pci=nomsi nomodeset
>> [    0.000908] CPU0: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.149371] CPU1: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.170683] CPU2: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.191977] CPU3: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.213274] CPU4: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.234576] CPU5: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.255876] CPU6: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.277184] CPU7: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
>> [    0.814047] Xenomai: SMI-enabled chipset found
>> [    0.814093] Xenomai: SMI workaround enabled
>>
>> I'm not sure how to read that. The workaround is enabled but not working?
>>
>> Unfortunatly I couldn't resist and changed more of the kernel config
>> than probably necessary, now things are getting really slow.
>>
>> None of my latencies are below 4000 and some are even beyond 170000.
>> Additionally the posix mutex torture script crashes every once in a
>> while with varying messages (i.e. device or resource busy, lock_stealing
>> not supported, access violations, and so on)
> You could be overheating, that could be the effect of disabling SMI
> globally, if thermal monitoring relies on SMI. So, you should not try to
> run with the smi workaround enabled.
>
> I am afraid if there is no option in BIOS to let the OS do the thermal
> management instead of the SMI, and if the thermal monitoring is what is
> causing the high latencies, you are out of luck.
>
I doubt that it's an overheating problem ... I've had the workaround
enabled all day and most of my measurements were "OK" besides those
occasional latency peaks.

I just installed lm-sensors to check the temperature: 65 to 70 degrees
celsius while compiling a kernel on all cores. Quite warm, but still ok
I guess.

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