From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Skander Bahloul <skander.bahloul@imag.fr>, xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] shielding fully CPU or CORE
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:31:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51EA4AF7.2060008@xenomai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EA4243.4020904@web.de>
On 07/20/2013 09:54 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2013-07-19 11:17, Skander Bahloul wrote:
>> Dear Xenomai list members,
>>
>> On a successful instal (but without NVIDIA driver, cf my previous message), I am now starting using Xenomai.
>>
>> We need to :
>> 1* shield fully a CPU or core, against the scheduler, interruption, etc
>> 2* run a single thread on this isolated CPU or core
>>
>> Step 2 is OK with the Xenomai API.
>> But how should I achieve step 1 ?
>>
>> I did not find advice in the Xenomai documentation.
>> I guess it should be done with :
>> $ sudo shield -a 0-3 -m -1
>>
>> Do you agree ?
>> When may I find detailed info on CPU shielding ?
>
> With "shield fully", do you mean 99,9...% or true 100%? The latter is
> not possible with current Linux kernels, thus also not with Xenomai. For
> the former, try kernel parameter isocpus (to keep Linux off certain
> cores), possibly in combination with xeno_hal.rthal_supported_cpus (to
> limit Xenomai to those cores).
Maybe a stupid idea, but can we not shutdown linux cpus, using cpu
hotplug, so as to have full isolation?
--
Gilles.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-20 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-19 9:17 [Xenomai] shielding fully CPU or CORE Skander Bahloul
2013-07-20 7:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-07-20 8:31 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]
2013-07-20 8:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-07-20 8:45 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2013-07-22 8:00 ` Kai Bollue
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