Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

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The 2 processes which I am measuring are parent and child processes.I want both of'em to be scheduled at the same time.My code simply does the following:

1) From main(i.e., parent) create a shared memory seg. using shmget() and shmat(). This is for communication between parent and child. I am trying to use this as a locking mechanism to make them tightly coupled so that one does not race before the other. 2) create child by fork() and call shmat() to attach this segment to child too 3) In parent and child call ioctl() to pass their PID's from user space to kernel space...so that I can measure when the particular PID's are scheduled in the scheduler

I suppose shmget() dosent use a system call.So still confused about the occasional resechedule behavior.



From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
To: Arun Srinivas <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 11:51:25 -0400

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 07:36 +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote:
> hi
>
> I spkoe to you some days ago regarding scheduling two processes together > on a HT.As I told you before I run them as SCHED_FIFO processes.I understood > the theory you told me in your previous reply as to why both of SCHED_FIFO
> processes get scheduled only once and then run till completion.
>
> But, sometimes a see a occasional reschedulei.e., the 2 processes get
> scheduled one more time after they are scheduled for the 1st time. I ran my > code 100 times and observed this behavior 8 out of 100 times. What could be
> the reason?
> (As I said i want my 2 processes to run together without any reschedule
> after they are scheduled for the first time).

 The only way a real time priority process of SCHED_FIFO gets
rescheduled, is if the process voluntarily calls schedule (you call a
system call that calls schedule), or a higher priority process gets
scheduled.  I don't know what your program is doing, or what priorities
that they are running with to know if something like this has occurred.

Also, if the programs you are running haven't been locked into memory
(they exist partially on the hard drive still), then it will take time
to map the code into memory when that code is called, and a schedule
will occur then as well.

-- Steve



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