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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@redhat.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Josef Griebichler <griebichler.josef@gmx.at>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	LMML <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 04:02:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1515553368.8252.5.camel@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180109222604.64d4377c@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 22:26 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> 
> I've previously experienced that you can be affected by the scheduler
> granularity, which is adjustable (with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y):
> 
>  $ grep -H . /proc/sys/kernel/sched_*_granularity_ns
>  /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns:2250000
>  /proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_ns:3000000
> 
> The above numbers were confirmed on the RPi2 (see[2]). With commit
> 4cd13c21b207 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"), I expect/assume that
> softirq processing latency is bounded by the sched_wakeup_granularity_ns,
> which with 3 ms is not good enough for their use-case.

Note of caution wrt twiddling sched_wakeup_granularity_ns: it must
remain < sched_latency_ns/2 else you effectively disable wakeup
preemption completely, turning CFS into a tick granularity scheduler.

	-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2018-01-06 19:54       ` dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-06 21:07         ` Aw: " Josef Griebichler
2018-01-06 21:44         ` Alan Stern
2018-01-07 11:03           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-07 15:41             ` Alan Stern
     [not found]               ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1801071010540.13425-100000-pYrvlCTfrz9XsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-07 17:01                 ` Aw: " Josef Griebichler
2018-01-08  9:43               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-08 16:10                 ` Alan Stern
2018-01-08 16:26                 ` Aw: " Josef Griebichler
2018-01-08 16:31                   ` Alan Stern
2018-01-08 17:15                     ` Aw: " Josef Griebichler
2018-01-08 17:35                       ` Alan Stern
2018-01-08 20:40                         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-01-08 21:31                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-01-08 21:44                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-08 22:16                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-01-09 16:51                         ` Aw: " Josef Griebichler
2018-01-09 17:27                           ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-09 17:48                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-09 17:57                               ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-09 18:58                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-09 21:48                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-10  9:45                                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-01-12 21:13                               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-12 21:48                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-01-13  9:09                                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-13 10:46                                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-07 21:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-08 10:02           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-08 11:59             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-01-08 12:53               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-08 16:25                 ` Alan Stern
2018-01-08 17:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-08 18:32             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-08 19:15               ` Alan Stern
2018-01-08 19:51                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-09 17:42                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-09 17:55                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-09 21:26                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-01-10  3:02                       ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2018-07-17 11:54                   ` Hanna Hawa
2018-07-17 17:09                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-17 18:07                       ` Hanna Hawa
2018-07-17 22:21                       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-26 14:17                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-26 19:37                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-01-29 13:51                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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