From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2696D43209; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:11:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A049440DDC; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:10:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D8E402CF for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:10:57 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1698329457; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=K47RZTP8JRRPo25I5wWSTrIf9ceW4g2nApXo7TOTwJs=; b=Y7QXF+5LMJuzwRJDZ81h/rKUpKxhVwmfRgK0HrHt29fgyeZLfUahi6HqkTMkP7xvJH7BEJ NF3hPTBmiapv8mb+g6Km5lW0iE4wauR5iD4ilptbH9sE5TFglvhYXatsp9+HFdpn1iR22o P/ObYZ/rGJdd3kzF7I66Qv15luc3RbA= Received: from mail-lj1-f199.google.com (mail-lj1-f199.google.com [209.85.208.199]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-241-fWWtg2rXMOmJuxwui6K1ow-1; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:10:56 -0400 X-MC-Unique: fWWtg2rXMOmJuxwui6K1ow-1 Received: by mail-lj1-f199.google.com with SMTP id 38308e7fff4ca-2c503af866dso10246731fa.2 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:10:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1698329454; x=1698934254; h=content-transfer-encoding:cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=K47RZTP8JRRPo25I5wWSTrIf9ceW4g2nApXo7TOTwJs=; b=u+R4U2SwbaBIu6BLWhNFannl5lqE+8rPZCz15HhvfrsmzUpqUtujOPj7Mi0kDcZ5Vr 1Q1I17FFOq8x/qBvRLa1IxzvEEWWIhyjs8vVuEYJ8WB+m0uz6YBIhjC3Bb0WnIvXLKtN 7rTx1GJ2xr3Y8JP+Maqz/sMt584bnJrXyodiB7kpjOgfTFQzYkEyQngPbnIapzMqigTX 15z0UrVzdmUX0vOD9S7rxqr5TN1NpWqy8HL5HZgPMfyt94ES++hkpVZ7FSoYSM722GUL MqE7ZJfecswIND05bx9YnspgSedtQVdvdwZj1jrZGhms5PVSTZ3QhmyEDYYGaHTDclSh NDZA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yyk9EbndQeWiKsXgqy1z7qGbrMU7UW8aufJ1cb0d61vjvEA4hzs tY4YQWmaZO1TyN7RKq9BBA2lL6YHdoTAtXukY/FugUASI+CLwamevSKyoJw+6lzZ/gk48T3Dyvy jq/ekiKpGqzu9KKv3hh8= X-Received: by 2002:a05:651c:2106:b0:2c5:2103:604b with SMTP id a6-20020a05651c210600b002c52103604bmr12758299ljq.2.1698329454636; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:10:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IHPPWQPPTa1Jk2HJVACLUMseFzSxNZIpA/ruavhW/82tCoQAwkk02HzbYFcFPH32JT2LX0kzJf1kpeF5Wt2Dho= X-Received: by 2002:a05:651c:2106:b0:2c5:2103:604b with SMTP id a6-20020a05651c210600b002c52103604bmr12758282ljq.2.1698329454316; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:10:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20231024125416.798897-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20231025163352.1076755-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <2170731.Icojqenx9y@thomas> <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9EF99@smartserver.smartshare.dk> <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9EF9A@smartserver.smartshare.dk> In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9EF9A@smartserver.smartshare.dk> From: David Marchand Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:10:42 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] allow creating thread with real-time priority To: =?UTF-8?Q?Morten_Br=C3=B8rup?= Cc: Thomas Monjalon , stephen@networkplumber.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 3:57=E2=80=AFPM Morten Br=C3=B8rup wrote: > > > From: Morten Br=C3=B8rup [mailto:mb@smartsharesystems.com] > > Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2023 15.45 > > > > > 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 th= en > > immediately schedule it. > > > > For testing purposes, consider sleeping 10 milliseconds or something > > significant like that. > > A bit more details... > > In our recent tests, nanosleep() itself took around 50 us. So you need to= sleep longer than that for your thread not to be runnable when the nanosle= ep() wakes up again, because 50 us has already passed in "nanosleep overhea= d". You may want to read manual for prctl and look for PR_SET_TIMERSLACK. https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/f62629a55894546ff043e8a116c3c57af= f73c285 > 10 milliseconds provides plenty of margin, and corresponds to 10 jiffies = on a 1000 Hz kernel. (I don't know if it makes any difference for the kerne= l scheduler if the timer crosses a jiffy border or not.) --=20 David Marchand