CPU shielding using /proc and /dev/cpuset

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== Interrupt shielding ==
 
  
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In order to shield CPUs from individual interrupts being serviced on them you have to make sure that the following kernel configuration parameter is set:
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<b>This wiki is being migrated to the Linux Foundation Real-Time Linux Project hosted wiki. The new pages are available at: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howto/tools/cpu-partitioning/cpusets and https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howto/tools/cpu-partitioning/irqbalanced. This page is now deprecated.</b>
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*CONFIG_IRQBALANCE
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Then make sure that the interrupts are not automatically balanced by the irqbalance daemon. This daemon is started from the irqbalance init script. To disable once do:
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{{cmdroot|/etc/init.d/irqbalance stop}}
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To disable after next reboot do:
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{{cmdroot|chkconfig irqbalance off}}
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After this you can change the CPU affinity mask of each interrupt by doing:
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{{cmdroot|echo ''hex_mask'' > /proc/irq/''<irq_number>''/smp_affinity}}
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To check that the affinity mask has been set you can check the contents of the smp_affinity file. {{NOTE|The mask is updated the next time an interrupt is serviced. So you may not see the change immediately.}}
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More information can be found in {{path|/usr/src/kernel/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt}}.
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== Process shielding ==
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The kernel has an cpuset feature that allows you to create cpusets for real-time purposes. The kernel interface is proc filesystem based. It is described in {{path|/usr/src/kernel/Documentation/cpusets.txt}}.
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Here is a quick example of how to use cpuset to reserve one cpu for your real-time process on a 4 cpu machine:
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{{cmdroot|mkdir /dev/cpuset/rt0}}
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{{cmdroot|echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/rt0/cpus}}
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{{cmdroot|echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/rt0/mems}}
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{{cmdroot|echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/rt0/cpu_exclusive}}
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{{cmdroot|echo $RT_PROC_PID > /dev/cpuset/rt0/tasks}}
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{{cmdroot|mkdir /dev/cpuset/system}}
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{{cmdroot|echo 1-3 > /dev/cpuset/system/cpus}}
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{{cmdroot|echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/system/mems}}
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{{cmdroot|echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/system/cpu_exclusive}}
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{{cmdroot|for pid in $(cat /dev/cpuset/tasks); do /bin/echo $pid > /dev/cpuset/system/tasks; done}}
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Latest revision as of 09:57, 21 December 2017

This wiki is being migrated to the Linux Foundation Real-Time Linux Project hosted wiki. The new pages are available at: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howto/tools/cpu-partitioning/cpusets and https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/documentation/howto/tools/cpu-partitioning/irqbalanced. This page is now deprecated.

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