On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 22:26 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > I've previously experienced that you can be affected by the scheduler > granularity, which is adjustable (with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y): > > $ grep -H . /proc/sys/kernel/sched_*_granularity_ns > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns:2250000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_ns:3000000 > > The above numbers were confirmed on the RPi2 (see[2]). With commit > 4cd13c21b207 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"), I expect/assume that > softirq processing latency is bounded by the sched_wakeup_granularity_ns, > which with 3 ms is not good enough for their use-case. Note of caution wrt twiddling sched_wakeup_granularity_ns: it must remain < sched_latency_ns/2 else you effectively disable wakeup preemption completely, turning CFS into a tick granularity scheduler. -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html