Hi,
I have got a problem with a celeron j1900 platform and i915 driver.
I have 3 realtime tasks that are launched sequentially.
task1 is clocked periodically at 3ms.
task1 wakes up task2 and takes 2 wakes up task 3 using priority
scheduling (and SCHED_FIFO mechanism).
everything works well, until I am using graphic applications with
activity (hide/show gui programs...,widgets creation /refresh etc).
The task1 always start periodically each 3ms, but the other threads
execution time are delayed.
I mean normally, the whole computing processing timing
(task1+task2+task3) takes normally around 800us time execution.
When I stress the graphic pages, This time becomes up to 1.6ms.
The 3 tasks are isolated on a cpu. I don't think the problem is
involved by the CPU, but more by i915 driver and memory.
I have not managed to identify the right reason with perf utility.
One thing I am sure :
if I run the same gui pages through an ssh shell, the problem has not
appeared. realtime is not "broken"
I know that the intel driver is involved.
I would need some help to identify the right problem and for finding
solutions.ideas.
Regards,
What priorities you have given to your RT tasks?
my 3 RT Tasks have the following priorities:
task1: 47
task2 : 48
task3 : 49
Higher priorities don't solve the problem. It is important to notice my
resolution is 1280x1024 / 19inch vertical orientation display,
I have experienced that running on an isolated CPU is not enough to
ensure that the scheduling of your tasks is not influenced by other
activities. In order to have my RT tasks running properly, I've been
forced not only to set policy to SCHED_FIFO, but also to set a
priority as high as possible, sort of:
mysched.sched_priority = 99;
if( sched_setscheduler( 0, policy, &mysched ) == -1 ) {
......
for the first task, and slghtly lower priorities to the others.
Then with *top *you may see where are positioned your tasks in the
scheduler priority.
Here's a snapshot of Top output (sorted by priority), with my 15 RT
tasks being, in order of priority, /ymain/ to /erhndl/. Very little
has higher priority, and all the rest has lower. This setup for me is
insensitive to CPU graphic activities.
Of course if in your case the i915 driver happens to have a higher
priority than the one you can manage to obtain programmatically for
your tasks, then you're out of luck.
Hope that it helps,
Giuliano
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