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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Query regarding 2.6.335 RT and Non-RT performance
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:59:19 -0700
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On 08/17/2010 03:22 PM, Manikandan Ramachandran wrote:


> I see a scenario where higher priority task is ready to run but lower
> priority IRQ thread is hogging the cpu. Please see the timeline log
> below:
>
> GIVE ffff0c1c [Comment: High priority IRQ thread wakes up high
> priority process at jiffy 0xffff0c1c]
> **ffff0c21**##ffff0c21##**ffff0c21**##ffff0c21##**ffff0c21**##ffff0c21##**ffff0c21**##ffff0c21##**ffff0c21**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c22**##ffff0c22##**ffff0c23**##ffff0c23##**ffff0c23**##ffff0c23##**ffff0c23**##ffff0c24##**ffff0c24**##ffff0c24##**ffff0c24**##ffff0c24##
> [Comment: Low priority IDE[ide_intr] handler hogs CPU for almost 3 ms]
> GOTffff0c26 [Comment: High priority task wakes up after 10 ms!!]
>
> I fail to understand why scheduler failed to schedule high priority
> task 10 times in a row. FYI, I have put IDE thread to SCHED_NORMAL
> while high priority thread and task to SCHED_FIFO.

Not really sure from the above what's going on, what priorities
you are running at, etc.

You might want look at the output of "ps -eLo pid,rtprio,policy,comm"
to see if you can confirm your scheduler attributes.

thanks,
Nivedita