Re: Priority Inheritance Test (Real-Time Preemption)

From: Esben Nielsen
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 02:39:07 EST


I will look through your arguments when I get time (probably not
before Sunday :-(). It does fit with the meassurements I have so far.

The reason for running 100000 samples is that for high depth and many
tasks the statistics is quite pure at the end. So I can just as well set
it high and do all the daily life stuff.

Esben

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > the additional +1 msec comes from the fact that 1-deep lock/unlock of
> > > lock1 is an allowed operation too - 2 msec would be the limit if the
> > > only sequence is the 2-deep one.
> > >
> > > so i think the numbers, at least in the 2-deep case, are quite close
> > > to the theoretical boundary.
> >
> > in the generic case i think the theoretical boundary should be something
> > like:
> >
> > sum(i=1...n)(i) == (n+1) * n / 2
> >
> > n=1 limit=1
> > n=2 limit=3
> > n=3 limit=6
> > n=4 limit=10
> >
> > this is quite close to what you have measured for n=1,2,3, and i think
> > it's becoming exponentially harder to trigger the worst-case with higher
> > N, so the measured results will likely be lower than that.
>
> also, you might want to try the simpler N-deep-locking-only variant,
> where the maximum latency should be 'n'. This likely needs some changes
> to the blocker.c code though - i.e. set 'max' always to lock_depth.
>
> Ingo
>

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