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From: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.9.1-rt19
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:34:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201027103411.h5ushvwsrovxls5u@beryllium.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201027102851.gizepjlu4opensqb@linutronix.de>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:28:51AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Is it running as a RT task?

root@c2d:~/rt-tests# ./pi_stress
Starting PI Stress Test
Number of thread groups: 1
Duration of test run: infinite
Number of inversions per group: unlimited
     Admin thread SCHED_FIFO priority 4
1 groups of 3 threads will be created
      High thread SCHED_FIFO priority 3
       Med thread SCHED_FIFO priority 2
       Low thread SCHED_FIFO priority 1

It says so, let me double check if those task really run with SCHED_FIFO.

> Do you have RCU-boosting enabled?

Yes

#
# RCU Subsystem
#
CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y
CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT=y
CONFIG_SRCU=y
CONFIG_TREE_SRCU=y
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y
CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU=y
CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON=y
CONFIG_RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST=y
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=64
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=16
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY=500
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y
# CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB is not set
# end of RCU Subsystem

> Otherwise it looks that if you throw enough non-RT load on the system,
> RCU can not catch up which does not sound good.

I think this is what Clark tried to tell me. If I understood him
correctly the test tool is not correct though.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-27 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-24  9:18 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-10-27  9:36 ` Daniel Wagner
2020-10-27 10:00   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-10-27 10:25     ` Daniel Wagner
2020-10-27 10:28       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-10-27 10:34         ` Daniel Wagner [this message]
2020-10-27 10:52           ` Daniel Wagner
2020-10-27 11:06           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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