Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: davinci_cpdma: reduce latency on -rt

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 05:36:49PM +0300, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> On 07/26/2016 03:02 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >these patches are based on next-20160726. I didn't check yet how latency
> >improves by using these patches, but even if the improvment is small,
> >it's still a good idea to have them.
> 
> Sry, but how this will affect on -RT? This is not a raw locks, so
> they will be converted to rt-mutexes which are sleepable.
> Or I've missed smth?

They are still locks after all. On -rt I saw for the relevant
application:

  send package         |
    take lock          |
    write pckt to hw   |
                       | rcv irq
		       |   take lock
		       |     schedule
    drop lock	       | 
      schedule         |
                       |   get pckt from hw
		       |   drop lock

So reducing the time a lock is taken reduces the chances that the lock
is contended for another thread which results in extra context switches.

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Arm (vger)]     [ARM Kernel]     [ARM MSM]     [Linux Tegra]     [Linux WPAN Networking]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Maemo Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Trails]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux