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SubjectRe: nohz and strange sleep latencies

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > hpet-disable helps.. a bit. 200msec latencies are gone. (What is
> > used for wakeups in this case?)
> >
> > pavel@amd:~$ while true; do time sleep 0.01; done
> > 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 22.96%CPU
> > 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.018s) elapsed 11.05%CPU
> > 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 15.54%CPU
>
> could you run this while doing the sleep test:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh
>
> and send us the output? (Enabling CONFIG_TIMER_STATS,
> CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS would maximize the amount of
> information.)

another question: do you feel and see these timer latencies? If unsure
you can do a timing test from a remote (known-good) box:

while :; do time ssh testbox sleep 0.01; done

there'll be a fair bit of offset cost and noise, but these fluctuations
should still be there and should be noticeable.

but i suspect the delays are "real", i.e. caused by timers not firing at
the right moment and not by some GTOD anomaly. Once you send the debug
data we might be able to tell more.

Ingo
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