On Thursday 09 August 2007 02:49:27 Robert de Vries wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 14:16 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > > It seems to me that this patch will reduce the frequency of
> > > irqd/softirqd starvation, but the core problem still exists: softirq
> > > tasks can't migrate to other CPUs to perform their work if a higher
> > > priority task preempts them. I'm wondering if we want to keep special
> > > casing things to minimize the problem or not - seems to me the worst
> > > case is still the same - and isn't the worst case the only case that
> > > matters (for -rt)?
> >
> > softirq tasks should never migrate to other CPUs. A softirq exists in
> > every CPU. So if you trigger a softirq on CPU1 it will only run on CPU1.
> > If a high priority task preempts it, that same softirq can still run on
> > other CPUS. Only the thread that was preempted wont switch. But that's
> > the characteristic of softirqs, and that's how people who use them in
> > development expect them to work.
>
> Wouldn't a developer of a real-time system configure the system so
> that interrupts do not interfere with the real-time tasks running on a
> specific CPU?
> In other words, is this problem not simply a misconfiguration of the
> system? I personally redirect all interrupts away from the CPU's where my
> real-time tasks run and only allow the interrupts that I want to
> handle in my application on the CPU's where I handle them so as to
> minimize latency.
I think the goal is to try and have a generally robust default setup - but the
interrupt shielding you are suggesting seems like it will become more and
more relevant as the number of CPUs increases.
--
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Realtime Linux Team
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