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SubjectRe: [v7 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 22:13 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> My current understanding is that if I have a real time task and wish it
>> have a deterministic performance time, you should call mlockall() to lock
>> the program data and text into physical memory so that  a  less often taken
>> branch or access to a new data region will not result in a page fault.
>>
>> You still have to worry about TLB misses on non hardware page table
>> walk architecture, but at least everything is in the  page tables
>>
>> If there is a better way to do this? I'm always happy to learn new
>> ways to do things. :-)
>
> A rt application usually consists of a lot of non-rt parts and a usually
> relatively small rt part. Using mlockall() pins the entire application
> into memory, which while on the safe side is very often entirely too
> much.
>
> The alternative method is to only mlock the text and data used by the rt
> part. You need to be aware of what text runs in your rt part anyway,
> since you need to make sure it is in fact deterministic code.
>
> One of the ways of achieving this is using a special linker section for
> your vetted rt code and mlock()'ing only that text section.
>
> On thread creation, provide a custom allocated (and mlock()'ed) stack
> etc..
>
> Basically, if you can't tell a-priory what code is part of your rt part,
> you don't have an rt part ;-)
>

That I can totally agree with.

I guess mlockall() is still useful as a kind of hack for lazy people,
although if you say that this kind of laziness does not really mix
well with real
time programming I will tend to agree... :-)

Gilad



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