From: "terry.montague.1980@btinternet.com" <terry.montague.1980@btinternet.com>
To: users@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-users] Linux descheduling DPDK transmit thread in SMP system? Any help greatly appreciated...
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 17:35:16 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23108673.51650.1504629316520.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> (raw)
Hi all,
I'm running a DPDK transmit thread with the ixgbe PMD on Ubuntu 17.04, with dual Xeon E5-2623 v4 CPUs on an Intel S2600 motherboard. The cores in use by DPDK are isolated in the boot cmdline with "isolcpus"
What I'm observing is I believe, on occasion, the DPDK transmit thread being descheduled by the system for between 20 and 60 milliseconds.
I've tried running as Real time with max priority, and tweaking the scheduling through /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us to be 99.999% available for real time thread, but so far no improvement
I notice there are various kernel threads resident on the isolated cpus, cpuhp/watchdog/migration/ksoftirqd +multiple kworker threads.
I can only assume the system is occasionally running these kernel side instead, although the CPU time taken (tens of milliseconds) seems very high. Note please that I amd NOT running with a modified kernel (nohz_full is not set).
Does anyone have any advice to keep the DPDK transmit thread running for more of the time on this SMP system ?
Many thanks
Terry.
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2017-09-05 16:35 terry.montague.1980 [this message]
2017-09-05 16:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-09-06 7:48 ` terry.montague.1980
2017-09-06 15:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
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