linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11

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Message-ID: <4E4B4BB6.7000400@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:03:50 -0700
From:	Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
CC:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 12:31 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:10:08PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 07:17 -0700, Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mike,
>>>>
>>>> Which test were you running? Because I'm not seeing it
>>>> on our x3550 M3..
>>> -rt11 did not trip up just idling along like a couple earlier releases
>>> did, but did stall when I tried to run ltp realtime testcases.
>> But please note that if your realtime workload is CPU-bound with prio
>> greater than that of RCU_SOFTIRQ, stalls would be expected.
> 
> The (broken) jitter testcase runs two threads, an interrupter thread at
> prio 80, and a worker at 10.  Both sleep.  I just ran the testcase
> standalone, and no stall happened, so perhaps something from an earlier
> testcase got stuck.. or something.
> 
> I'll try maxing out boost, and see what happens.  It was set to 50.
> 
> 	-Mike

I suppose the other thing to watch out for is the stall
any RT task might see when sched_rt_runtime_us is maxed
out -- it was the occasional cause for a failure or two,
as well.


thanks,
Nivedita
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