Re: Regression on rt kernel while using POSIX timers

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Julia Cartwright wrote:
> 
> Without PREEMPT_RT_FULL enabled, the critical section is executed with
> "raw" spinlocks, and is therefore non-preemptible.  However, with
> RT_FULL, the preemptibility of the section leads to the "bounce".
> 
> That should make it clear why ktimersoftd would be PI boosted, as well.
> 
> Now, it isn't clear to me why the affinitized scenario appears to make
> this happen more frequently...  Nor do I have a handle on what to do to
> fix this (if anything).

The point here is:

perf stat taskset 1 cyclictest -t1

will make the control thread of cyclictest affine to cpu 0 and also the
measuring thread. perf stat counts the context switches of both.

CPU 0
cyclictest-control

--> Interrupt

ksoftirqd

cyclictest-measure
  rearm timer
  sleep

cyclictest-control

....

versus a non affine scenario

CPU0   	     	    CPU1		CPU2
cyclictest-control  interrupt
		    ksoftirqd	-->	cyclictest-measure
		    			   rearm timer
					   sleep
					
					interrupt
		    cyclicttest <--	ksoftirqd
		    -measure		

Thanks,

	tglx