On 21/12/2013 11:11, Mike Galbraith wrote:
Works, modulo noisy workqueues.
rtbox:~ # sleep 35 && killall pert& cgexec -g cpuset:rtcpus taskset -c 3 pert 5
[1] 5660
2400.05 MHZ CPU
perturbation threshold 0.018 usecs.
pert/s: 33 >15.75us: 2 min: 0.04 max: 24.14 avg: 2.51 sum/s: 84us overhead: 0.01%
pert/s: 35 >15.54us: 3 min: 0.04 max: 24.89 avg: 2.39 sum/s: 84us overhead: 0.01%
pert/s: 30 >15.27us: 2 min: 0.04 max: 23.03 avg: 2.64 sum/s: 80us overhead: 0.01%
pert/s: 34 >15.12us: 3 min: 0.04 max: 25.03 avg: 2.51 sum/s: 86us overhead: 0.01%
pert/s: 31 >14.93us: 2 min: 0.04 max: 23.86 avg: 2.60 sum/s: 83us overhead: 0.01%
Terminated
I can confirm this works for me as well, but I have noticed some strange behavior under certain
conditions.
If I run a process with SCHED_OTHER priority and pin it to a specific CPU like Mike did then all is
well and everything functions as expected. If however I mask the execution of ksoftirqd by running
that process as SCHED_FIFO for too long (say a few seconds) and later I free the CPU, then what I'm
seeing is that the tick is never turned off again even though the CPU is completely idle, and
running that same SCHED_OTHER process from before now gets 1K timer interrupts/s. I suspect this has
something to do with the timer softirq never running on that CPU again as a result of this patch.
Following is trace output during this condition for two consecutive ticks, when the CPU is
completely idle (shielded by isolcpus, HZ=1000):
<idle>-0 [003] d..h3.. 355.620760: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
<idle>-0 [003] d..h2.. 355.620760: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
function=tick_sched_timer now=355487000349
<idle>-0 [003] d..h2.. 355.620761: hrtimer_expire_exit: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
<idle>-0 [003] d..h3.. 355.620761: hrtimer_start: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
function=tick_sched_timer expires=355488000000 softexpires=355488000000
<idle>-0 [003] ....2.. 355.620762: cpu_idle: state=4294967295 cpu_id=3
<idle>-0 [003] d...2.. 355.620762: cpu_idle: state=1 cpu_id=3
<idle>-0 [003] d..h3.. 355.621760: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
<idle>-0 [003] d..h2.. 355.621761: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
function=tick_sched_timer now=355488000330
<idle>-0 [003] d..h2.. 355.621761: hrtimer_expire_exit: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
<idle>-0 [003] d..h3.. 355.621761: hrtimer_start: hrtimer=ffff88011fd8b720
function=tick_sched_timer expires=355489000000 softexpires=355489000000
<idle>-0 [003] ....2.. 355.621762: cpu_idle: state=4294967295 cpu_id=3
<idle>-0 [003] d...2.. 355.621762: cpu_idle: state=1 cpu_id=3
--Muli
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