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SubjectRe: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:42:35 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
> Em Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:51:04 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> escreveu:
>
[...]
> Patch makes sense to me, although I was not able to test it myself.

The patch also make sense to me. I've done some basic testing with it
on my high-end Broadwell system (that I use for 100Gbit/s testing). As
expected the network overload case still works, as NET_RX_SOFTIRQ is
not matched.

> I set a RPi3 machine here with vanilla Kernel 4.14.11 running a
> standard raspbian distribution (with elevator=deadline).

I found a Raspberry Pi Model B+ (I think, BCM2835), that I loaded the
LibreELEC distro on. One of the guys even created an image for me with
a specific kernel[1] (that I just upgraded the system with).

[1] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/4235-dvb-issue-since-le-switched-to-kernel-4-9-x/?postID=77031#post77031

> My plan is to do more tests along this week, and try to tweak a little
> bit both userspace and kernelspace, in order to see if I can get
> better results.

I've previously experienced that you can be affected by the scheduler
granularity, which is adjustable (with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y):

$ grep -H . /proc/sys/kernel/sched_*_granularity_ns
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns:2250000
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_ns:3000000

The above numbers were confirmed on the RPi2 (see[2]). With commit
4cd13c21b207 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"), I expect/assume that
softirq processing latency is bounded by the sched_wakeup_granularity_ns,
which with 3 ms is not good enough for their use-case.

Thus, if you manage to reproduce the case, try to see if adjusting this
can mitigate the issue...


Their system have non-preempt kernel, should they use PREEMPT?

LibreELEC:~ # uname -a
Linux LibreELEC 4.14.10 #1 SMP Tue Jan 9 17:35:03 GMT 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

[2] https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/4235-dvb-issue-since-le-switched-to-kernel-4-9-x/?postID=76999#post76999
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Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

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