Re: Pin-pointing the root of unusual application latencies

[John Sigler]

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Ingo Molnar wrote:

> John Sigler wrote:
>
> > > With a pair of the following in the middle:
> > >
> > > softirq--4     0....  670us : call_rcu (rt_run_flush)
> > > softirq--4     0D..1  670us : __rcu_advance_callbacks (call_rcu)
>
> > Any idea what went wrong in the above function trace? Why is the 
> > kernel spinning in circles that way?
>
> does your test-app have higher priority than softirq--4 ?

PID 4 is [softirq-timer/0] and has priority 50 in SCHED_FIFO.
My process has priority 80 in SCHED_RR. It is waiting for IRQ10.

My user-space app has higher priority than everything except
PID 2 which is [posix_cpu_timer]

Is this a priority inversion issue?

Regards.
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