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From: Krzysztof Witkowski <Krzysztof.Witkowski@mobile.put.edu.pl>
To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU load inhibits CAN interrupts
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:40:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F85518F.9020305@mobile.put.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F847253.5080507@grandegger.com>

W dniu 4/10/2012 7:48 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger pisze:
>> However, if I generate artificial CPU load with stress command:
>>
>>     chrt --idle 0 stress -c 2
>
> What does "-c 2" do? My "chrt" command does not have that option.

It is an option for stress command:
-c, --cpu N
               spawn N workers spinning on sqrt()

>> Why CPU load inhibits hardware interrupts and what can be done about it?
>
> Hm, what does "ip -d -s can0" report while you are producing CPU load
> with the stress command above.

# ip -s -d link show can0

4: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN 
mode DEFAULT qlen 10
     link/can
     can state ERROR-PASSIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 128) restart-ms 100
     bitrate 1000000 sample-point 0.750
     tq 125 prop-seg 2 phase-seg1 3 phase-seg2 2 sjw 2
     sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1
     clock 8000000
     re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off
     0          0          0          1          1          0
     RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
     728        91       0       0       0       0
     TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
     0          0        0       0       0       0


It can occasionally deliver packets, but the rate is no more than ~2 
packets/second.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-11 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 14:40 CPU load inhibits CAN interrupts Krzysztof Witkowski
2012-04-10 17:48 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-04-11  9:40   ` Krzysztof Witkowski [this message]
2012-04-11 13:23     ` Wolfgang Grandegger

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