On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 18:30 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> Following Ingo's example I have included the modified test case (please see
> the original mail for librt.h) that starts the trace before each sleep and
> disables it after we wake up. If we have missed a period, we print the
> trace.
>
<snip>
> The very first run
> failed, (I've noticed that the first iteration seems to always hit PERIOD
> MISSED! while the second usually passes fine).
I've noticed also that, on some occasions, the first run would fail,
but subsequent runs would be fine. Strange!
I finally managed to hit a missed period under heavy heavy load:
Running 100000 iterations with a period of 5 ms
Expected running time: 500 s
ITERATION DELAY(US) MAX_DELAY(US) FAILURES
--------- --------- ------------- --------
211 70 97 0
PERIOD MISSED!
scheduled delta: 3128 us
actual delta: 3191 us
latency: 62 us
---------------------------------------
previous start: 1055070 us
now: 1060172 us
scheduled start: 1060000 us
next scheduled start is in the past!
Start Latency: 198 us: FAIL
Min Latency: 6 us: PASS
Avg Latency: 0 us: PASS
Max Latency: 97 us: PASS
Failed Iterations: 0
I'll try to trace it now.
> It's still running a 1M
> iteration run with no more failures so far (100K so far).
>
> The latency tracer is a very interesting tool. I have a few
> questions/assumptions I'd like to run by you to make sure I understand the
> output of the latency trace:
>
> o ! in the delay column means there is a long latency here?
! means latency > 100 us
> o + in the delay column means there is a > 1us latency here?
+ means latency > 1 us
> o > means entering the kernel from a sys_call?
yep
> o < means returning from the sys_call?
or from interrupt
> o : is not < or >
yep
Sébastien.
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