Re: [Xen-devel] xen 4.5.0 rtds scheduler perform poorly with 2vms

[Meng Xu <xumengpanda@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-11-23 23:57 GMT-05:00 Yu-An(Victor) Chen <chen116@xxxxxxx>:
> Hi Meng,
>
Hi,

> Thank you again for your kindly reply!
No problem :-)

> I am currently using "litmus-rt-2014.2.patch" and with my labmates' patch
> for IPI interrupt (https://github.com/LITMUS-RT/liblitmus/pull/1/files)
> I asked my labmate about it, he said he was not sure if there is more IPI
> interrupt bug other than then one he fixed.
>
> I can am using "st_trace" to check the success rate of the tasks. it only
> gives me the how much of the deadline I am missing for each job.
> which TRACE function in LITMUS, do you mean?

Yes! If it is the IPI issue, you should see the destination cpu is not
repsonding to the IPI in LITMUS, not Xen.

>
> litmus_log?ft_cpu_traceX?ft_msg_traceX?sched_trace?
> or
> st_trace?
>
> https://wiki.litmus-rt.org/litmus/Tracing
>
>
> At this point I think the best way is to install the newest litmus-rt
> (litmus-rt-2015.1.patch) ?

Yes. :-)

Another way to rule out the IPI delay issue is to have a background
task running on each VCPU of the VM with small period to see if it
improve the schedulablity. If it does, the IPI issue may still exist
in LITMUS. :-( Then you have to look at the TRACE to figure out which
part misses the IPI in LITMUS.


>
> Again, thank you very much, I really appreciate your help!

No problem.

Meng
>
> Victor
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Meng Xu <xumengpanda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2015-11-23 11:35 GMT-05:00 Yu-An(Victor) Chen <chen116@xxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi Meng,
>> >
>> > Thank you very much for replying!
>> >
>> > The RT tasks I am running for each trial at a certain utilization rate
>> > is a
>> > collection of real-time tasks, and each real-time task is a sequence of
>> > jobs
>> > that are released periodically. All jobs are periodic, where each job is
>> > defined by a period (and deadline) and a worse-case execution time. Each
>> > job
>> > is just running of a number of iterations of floating point operations.
>> > This
>> > is based on the base task.c provided with the LITMUSRT userspace
>> > library. So
>> > Yes they are independent and not I/O or memory intensive.
>>
>> Ah, I see. Which version of LITMUSRT did you use? LITMUS^RT has a bug
>> in Xen environment. The IPI interrupt is not handled properly in
>> LITMUS on Xen.  With the bug, the system performance is worse than
>> when the system is loaded, because LITMUS scheduler just fails to
>> respond due to the IPI ignorance.
>>
>> IIRC, this bug was fixed in the latest LITMUSRT code.
>> Did you use the latest LITMUS code?
>>
>> One way to debug the issue is:
>> Can you enable the TRACE in LITMUS and collact the scheduling log in
>> the scenario when you see the bad performance?
>>
>> >
>> > The period distribution I have for each task is (10ms,100ms) which is
>> > bigger
>> > than the VM period I specified using xl sched-rtds (10000us), but I
>> > guess
>> > the lower bound is too close to the VM period. So by your suggestion,
>> > maybe
>> > shorten the period for VM can improve the performance?
>>
>> Yes. At least it shorten the starvation interval.
>>
>> Meng
>
>



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Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/

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