runaway latency detection

2016-08-21 Thread T. Smith
Trying to isolate PREEMPT_RT (full preemption) runaway latency conditions seen when using the cyclictest on the 4.1.8 SMP PREEMPT_RT kernel. Seen average latency of 3uS, but runaway or outlier max latency random spikes seem indeterminate. Noted 72uS with one run of the cyclictest for example.

Re: runaway latency detection

2016-08-20 Thread Steven Rostedt
On August 20, 2016 3:04:43 PM EDT, Tracy Smith >Using ftace it is difficult to catch the latency since it can occur at >any >point during the cyclictest. It is an uncomfortable level of >indeterminism >without knowing the cause. > >Is there a way to trace random latency jumps on a single core

Re: runaway latency detection

2016-08-20 Thread Nikolay Borisov
On 20.08.2016 20:03, T. Smith wrote: > The goal is to isolate causes of indeterminism when using the PREEMPT_RT > kernel configuration with full preemption and to characterize latency and > jitter using ftrace, any recommendations? What hardware is it ? If it's x86 it's entirely possible you a

runaway latency detection

2016-08-20 Thread T. Smith
Trying to isolate PREEMPT_RT (full preemption) runaway latency conditions seen when using the cyclictest on the 4.1.8 SMP PREEMPT_RT kernel. Seen average latency of 3uS, but runaway or outlier max latency seems indeterminate. Noted 72uS with one run of the cyclictest for example. Is this a kno