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| − | == Interrupt shielding ==
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| − | === Kernel Space === | + | <div style="margin:0; margin-top:10px; margin-right:10px; border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding:0 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#f9e9e9; align:right;"> |
| − | 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:
| + | <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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| − | === User Space ===
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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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| − | Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
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| − | containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following
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| − | files describing that cpuset:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | - cpus: list of CPUs in that cpuset
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| − | - mems: list of Memory Nodes in that cpuset
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| − | - memory_migrate flag: if set, move pages to cpusets nodes
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| − | - cpu_exclusive flag: is cpu placement exclusive?
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| − | - mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
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| − | - mem_hardwall flag: is memory allocation hardwalled
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| − | - memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
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| − | - memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
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| − | - memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
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| − | - sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
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| − | - sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks
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| − | </pre>
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| − | In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file:
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| − | - memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
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| − | </pre>
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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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