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SubjectRe: [PATCH documentation 2/2] kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:59:05PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:03:29PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > > +Name: ehca_comp/%u
> > > > > > +Purpose: Periodically process Infiniband-related work.
> > > > > > +To reduce corresponding OS jitter, do any of the following:
> > > > > > +1. Don't use EHCA Infiniband hardware. This will prevent these
> > > > >
> > > > > Sounds like this particular hardware is slow and its IRQ handler/softirq
> > > > > needs a lot of time. Yes, no?
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we have a reason why people shouldn't use that hw.
> > > >
> > > > Because it has per-CPU kthreads that can cause OS jitter. ;-)
> > >
> > > Yeah, I stumbled over this specific brand of Infiniband hw. It looks
> > > like this particular Infiniband driver uses per-CPU kthreads and the
> > > others in drivers/infiniband/hw/ don't?
> > >
> > > I hope this explains my head-scratching moment here...
> >
> > Ah! I rewrote the first sentence to read:
> >
> > Don't use eHCA Infiniband hardware, instead choosing hardware
> > that does not require per-CPU kthreads.
>
> Another option would be to teach that eHCA driver to be configurable
> on which cpus kthreads are desired and on which not. I can't see a
> reason (aside of throughput) why that hardware can't cope with a
> single thread.

Good point! I have added a third item to the eHCA list:

Rework the eHCA driver so that its per-CPU kthreads are
provisioned only on selected CPUs.

Thanx, Paul



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