Re: [PATCH RFC] rcuperf: make timeout HZ independent

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:49:43AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 01:21:05PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > Make the probability of ftrace dump not interfering with other writers 
> > grace period, HZ independent.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> What we would -really- like is to vary the time based on the clock rate
> of the CPUs (could use bogomips, I suppose) and the memory latency of
> the system, so that systems with smaller memory latency and faster CPUs
> would use shorter timeouts.  However, slower CPUs tend to use smaller
> HZ values, so varying based on HZ is not entirely insane.
> 
> But what would you suggest?

so what you want is a rough estimate of a "fixed instruction quantum"
while bogomips/cpu_khz would ignore memory latency it might still be
better than a fixed time then - something like 
  schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(10000/cpu_khz)); ?

> 
> Good question on schedule_timeout_interruptible()...  I usually do that
> if there is some reason to be sensitive to an early wakeup, for example,
> to allow shutdown to proceed quickly, but that doesn't make much sense
> here, given that ftrace_dump() is likely to take a very long time.
>
ok - just though that I was overlooking something - thanks for the 
clarification.

thx!
hofrat