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From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	<stephen@networkplumber.org>, <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 0/2] allow creating thread with real-time priority
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:44:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9EF99@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2170731.Icojqenx9y@thomas>

> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2023 15.37
> 
> 25/10/2023 18:31, Thomas Monjalon:
> > Real-time thread priority was been forbidden on Unix
> > because of problems they can cause.
> > Warnings and helpers are added to avoid deadlocks,
> > so real-time can be allowed on all systems.
> 
> Unit test is failing:
> DPDK:fast-tests / threads_autotest      TIMEOUT 600.01 s
> 
> It is seen in only 1 target (maybe the failure occurence is random):
>   Debian 11 (Buster) (ARM) | PASS
>   Fedora 37 (ARM)          | PASS
>   CentOS Stream 9 (ARM)    | FAIL
>   Fedora 38 (ARM)          | PASS
>   Fedora 38 (ARM Clang)    | PASS
>   Ubuntu 20.04 (ARM)       | PASS
> 
> I need to send a v4 with new implementation and better comments.
> The Unix sleep will be upgraded from 1 ns to 1 us in case it makes a
> difference.

It will not make a difference. The kernel will go through the sleeping steps, then wake up again and see the real-time thread is ready to run, and then immediately schedule it.

For testing purposes, consider sleeping 10 milliseconds or something significant like that.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-26 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-24 12:54 [PATCH] eal/unix: " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-24 13:55 ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-24 16:04   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 13:15     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 13:34       ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-25 13:44         ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:08           ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 15:14             ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-25 15:18               ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:32                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:37   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 16:46     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 17:54       ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-25 21:33         ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26  7:33           ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 16:32             ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26 17:07               ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26  0:00         ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 16:31   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] eal: add thread yield functions Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 16:40     ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-25 17:06       ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 18:07     ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-25 16:31   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:36   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:44     ` Morten Brørup [this message]
2023-10-26 13:57       ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 14:04         ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:08           ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 14:30             ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:50               ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 14:59                 ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 15:54                   ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-26 16:07                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 16:50                       ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 19:51                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-27  7:19                           ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 16:28             ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26 19:55               ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 21:10                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26 14:10         ` David Marchand
2023-10-26 13:37 ` [PATCH v4 " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:37   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: add thread yield functions Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:37   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:19 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:19   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] eal: add thread yield functions Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:19   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 20:00   ` [PATCH v5 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 23:35     ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-10-27  8:08 ` [PATCH v6 1/1] eal/unix: " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-27  8:45   ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-27  9:11     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-27 18:15     ` Stephen Hemminger

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