Re: runaway latency detection

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Sat Aug 20 2016 - 13:55:04 EST




On 20.08.2016 20:03, T. Smith wrote:
> The goal is to isolate causes of indeterminism when using the PREEMPT_RT kernel configuration with full preemption and to characterize latency and jitter using ftrace, any recommendations?

What hardware is it ? If it's x86 it's entirely possible you are seeing
SMI. Perhaps you should look into disabling those if you are on x86?