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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:51:30 -0800
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
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To: Qin Chuanyu <qinchuanyu@huawei.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: What's the concern about setting irq thread's policy as SCHED_FIFO
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On 12/03/2014 12:06 AM, Qin Chuanyu wrote:
> I am doing network performance test under suse11sp3 and intel 82599 nic,
> Becasuse the softirq is out of schedule policy's control, so netserver
> thread couldn't always get 100% cpu usage, then packet dropped in kernel
> udp socket's receive queue.
>
> In order to get a stable result, I did some patch in ixgbe driver and
> then use irq_thread instead of softirq to handle rx.
> It seems work well, but irq_thread's SCHED_FIFO schedule policy cause
> that when the cpu is limited, netserver couldn't work at all.

I cannot speak to any scheduling issues/questions, but can ask if you 
tried binding netserver to a CPU other than the one servicing the 
interrupts via the -T option on the netperf command line:

netperf -T <netperfCPU>,<netserverCPU>  ...

http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk/doc/netperf.html#index-g_t_002dT_002c-Global-41

happy benchnmarking,

rick jones

>
> So I change the irq_thread's schedule policy from SCHED_FIFO to
> SCHED_NORMAL, then the irq_thread could share the cpu usage with
> netserver thread.
>
> the question is:
> What's the concrete reason about setting irq thread's policy as SCHED_FIFO?
> Except the priority affecting the cpu usage, any function would be
> broken if irq thread change to SCHED_NORMAL?
>
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