Re: Real-time problem due to IO congestion.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Takashi Ikebe <ikebe.takashi@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>
> There are 2 type processes in test environment.
>  1. The real-time needed process (run on with high static priority)
>      The process wake up every 10ms, and wake up, write some log (the
>  test case is current CPU clock via tsc) to the file.
> 
>  2. The process which make IO load
>      The process have large memory size, and kill the process with dumping.
>      The process's memory area exceeds 70% of whole physical
>  RAM.(Actually 1.5GB memory area while whole RAM is 2GB)
> 
>  Whenever during dumping, the real-time needed process sometimes stop for
>  long time during write system call. (sometimes exceeds 1000ms)

The writeback code does attempt to give some preference to realtime tasks
(in get_dirty_limits()), but it can only work up to a point.

Frankly, your application is poorly designed.  If you want sub-10ms
responsiveness you shouldn't be doing disk I/O.  The realtime task should
hand the data off to a non-realtime task for writeout, with suitable
amounts of buffering in between.
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