Re: [Xenomai] latency spikes under load

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 12/03/2013 02:07 PM, Kurijn Buys wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response, ACPI is enabled, I only disabled
> "Processor" in there... -1 was a typo indeed, it is at 1... I see
> SCHED_SMT [=y] in my kernel config... shall I recompile the kernel
> with this disabled then... no other things to try first/at the same
> time?

To remove hyperthreading, either:
- disable it in the BIOS configuration;
- or disable CONFIG_SMP (not SCHED_SMPT) in the kernel configuration.

>
> I realized that the test with sched_rt_runtime_us on -1 I performed
> was with an earlier set-up. When I set it now to -1, I have better
> performance, but: 1) still spikes of up to 87us under load with
> ./latency 2) still some completely shifted occurrences with the other
> latency test, with a 1000µs period (but now only 2 out of 890814),
> and the rest of the distribution lies in [861-1139]µs, which is also
> rather large I suppose.

sched_rt_runtime_us should not make any difference.

Something else you should try is to disable root thread priority coupling.

>
> The ipipe trace after test (1) was similar to the one I posted, where
> this line seems to be the problem I suppose: :|   #end     0x80000001
> -179! 149.235  ipipe_check_context+0x87 (add_preempt_count+0x15)
>
> Merci! ]{urijn

You are welcome. Please avoid top-posting.

Regards.

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					    Gilles.