I cannot find SCHED_NO_HZ_FULL in v5.18:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/A/ident/SCHED_NO_HZ_FULL
Could you elaborate?
Thanks and best regards,
Carsten
On 24.06.22 17:01, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:03:49 +0200
Carsten Andrich <carsten.andr...@tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
2. Use real-time priority (SCHED_FIFO w/ priority 99) for the DPDK
threads and
echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
to disable the runtime limit. With the runtime limit in place, the
SCHED_FIFO performance will be significantly worse than SCHED_OTHER.
This can cause major issues if application is normal DPDK application (never
does system calls).
If an interrupt or other event happens on your isolated CPU, the work that it
would
do in soft irq is never performed. FIFO has higher priority than kernel threads.
This can lead to mystery lockups from other applications (reads not completing,
network timeouts, etc).
In any semi-recent kernel using SCHED_NO_HZ_FULL will keep clock ticks from
happening
on the isolated cores.