We continued analyzing the msleep() behaviour. I tested running msleep() (without TPM interactions), by writing a kernel module that runs msleep() in a loop for a fixed number of iterations.
Based on these test results, as shown below, the observations are: 1. Non-cascading timers, as introduced by commit 500462a9de65, is working as expected, since all the timers expired well within ring 0. 2. However, the minimum delay doubled, causing the average delay to increase by ~30%. CONFIG_HZ = 250: For 1000 iterations, each of 1 msecs ===================================== Kernel/Timer | msleep | usleep_range | 4.7 | Min: 4.89, Avg: 8 | Min: 1.12 Avg: 1.58 | 4.10 | Min: 11.9, Avg: 11.19 | Min: 1.31 Avg: 1.36 | For 3000 iterations, each of 1 msecs. ===================================== Kernel/Timer | msleep | usleep_range | 4.7 | Min: 6.55, Avg: 8.02 | Min: 1.05 Avg: 1.53 | 4.10 | Min: 11.8, Avg: 12.04 | Min: 1.02 Avg: 1.35 | Thomas, can the minimum delay be improved ? Thanks & Regards, - Nayna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ tpmdd-devel mailing list tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tpmdd-devel
