Re: 1.6ms jitter in rtc_wakeup (Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt1)

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Esben Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Esben Nielsen wrote:
I set up rtc_wakeup and got a jitter up 1.6ms!
It came when I cd'en into a nfs-mount and typed ls.

     ls-11239 0Dn..    4us : profile_hit (__schedule)
     ls-11239 0Dn.1    4us : sched_clock (__schedule)
     ls-11239 0Dn.1    5us : check_tsc_unstable (sched_clock)
     ls-11239 0Dn.1    5us : tsc_read_c3_time (sched_clock)
  IRQ 8-775   0D..2    6us : __switch_to (__schedule)
  IRQ 8-775   0D..2    7us!: __schedule <ls-11239> (75 0)
  IRQ 8-775   0...1 1594us : trace_stop_sched_switched (__schedule)
  IRQ 8-775   0D..2 1594us : trace_stop_sched_switched <IRQ 8-775> (0 0)
  IRQ 8-775   0D..2 1595us : trace_stop_sched_switched (__schedule)

ouch! This very much looks like a hardware induced latency, because the codepath from those two __schedule points is extremely short and there is no loop there. Have you tested this particular box before too? If not, can you reproduce this latency with older versions of -rt too on the same box, or is this completely new?

I have been testing on this box before but never with such long latencies
before.


I could not reproduce it on linux-2.6.14-rc3-rt10. The maximum meassured
rtc_wakeup is 146us with the same config options. Running linux-2.6.14-rc4-rt1 with ethernet disabled gave a maximum latency
of 1468us while building the kernel:

Hello,
  I've just wrote to Randy that I'm seeing same on non-RT kernel when system
uses HPET.  It makes it unusable for >512Hz, as when 1kHz timer is requested
we miss one tick and HPET interrupts stop for 5 minutes (32bit * 69.8ns).
Delay happens sometime after HPET programming - when frequency like 16kHz
is programmed, first ~6 interrupts arrive correctly, but 7th is delayed by
1 millisecond or so when compared with time on which it should arrive.

  I've found it on VIA board, so I just assumed that VIA's hardware is
strange and went back to disabling HPET.

  Maybe I should try -rt kernel sometime, but as I need working RTC interrupts
on that box for daily work, it is not simple to experiment with nohpet/hpet
options.
								Petr

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