> From: Mattias Rönnblom [mailto:mattias.ronnb...@ericsson.com] > Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2022 09.51 > > On 2022-10-06 08:53, Morten Brørup wrote:
[...] > > I have been wondering how accurate the tests really are. Where can I > see what is being done to ensure that the EAL worker threads are fully > isolated, and never interrupted by the O/S scheduler or similar? > > > > There are kernel-level counters for how many times a thread have been > involuntarily interrupted, Thanks, Mattias. I will look into that. Old kernels (2.4 and 2.6) ascribed the time spent in interrupt handlers to the CPU usage of the running process, instead of counting the time spent in interrupt handlers separately. Does anyone know it this has been fixed? > and also, if I recall correctly, the amount > of wall-time the thread have been runnable, but not running (i.e., > waiting to be scheduled). The latter may require some scheduler debug > kernel option being enabled on the kernel build.
