Kernel work in user context

2020-09-23 Thread Ronny Meeus
Hello I have a system, running on a 2 core device, doing packet processing. The kernel version is 4.9. 2 applications communicate with each other via IPC. One application is receiving packets from an ethernet interface and after doing some preprocessing it forwards the packets to the other

Re: fs/pstore question

2019-05-20 Thread Ronny Meeus
Op do 9 mei 2019 10:05 schreef Ronny Meeus : > > Hello > > I'm using the pstore feature to log kernel crashes. > > What I observe is that after reboot, always 2 entries are present in the > pstore: > > ls -l /mnt/pstore > total 0 > -r--r--r--1 root root

fs/pstore question

2019-05-09 Thread Ronny Meeus
Hello I'm using the pstore feature to log kernel crashes. What I observe is that after reboot, always 2 entries are present in the pstore: ls -l /mnt/pstore total 0 -r--r--r--1 root root 16372 Jan 1 00:00 dmesg-ramoops-0 -r--r--r--1 root root 16372 Jan 1 00:00

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-05-07 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2015 22:17:48 +0200 > Ronny Meeus wrote: > >> > View on what? >> >> Whether the real-time priority threads are used a lot. >> I have the impression that there are severe issues in the Lin

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-05-07 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2015 05:14:18 +0200 > Ronny Meeus wrote: > >> Thanks for looking into this. >> >> It looks to me that real-time priority threads are not used in many >> systems because we discov

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-05-07 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2015 05:14:18 +0200 Ronny Meeus ronny.me...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for looking into this. It looks to me that real-time priority threads are not used in many systems because we discovered already

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-05-07 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2015 22:17:48 +0200 Ronny Meeus ronny.me...@gmail.com wrote: View on what? Whether the real-time priority threads are used a lot. I have the impression that there are severe issues in the Linux eco

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-05-05 Thread Ronny Meeus
at patch. >> >> /me adds CC, and tags (again) to take a peek. > > Thanks Mike, although I'm not the author of the patch ;-) See the > "From:" tag at the beginning of the patch. > >> >> On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 21:10 +0100, Ronny Meeus wrote: >> &g

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-05-05 Thread Ronny Meeus
of that patch. /me adds CC, and tags (again) to take a peek. Thanks Mike, although I'm not the author of the patch ;-) See the From: tag at the beginning of the patch. On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 21:10 +0100, Ronny Meeus wrote: I'm using a patched kernel I get from Monta-Vista, it is based

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-04-30 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Ronny Meeus wrote: > I'm using a patched kernel I get from Monta-Vista, it is based on the > 3.10 kernel with some RT patches. > We ported an application from pSOS RTOS to Linux using the > Xenomai-Mercury (=library to map pSOS task to POSIX threa

Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-04-30 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Ronny Meeus ronny.me...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using a patched kernel I get from Monta-Vista, it is based on the 3.10 kernel with some RT patches. We ported an application from pSOS RTOS to Linux using the Xenomai-Mercury (=library to map pSOS task to POSIX

Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-03-17 Thread Ronny Meeus
I'm using a patched kernel I get from Monta-Vista, it is based on the 3.10 kernel with some RT patches. We ported an application from pSOS RTOS to Linux using the Xenomai-Mercury (=library to map pSOS task to POSIX threads). One of the patches applied to our kernel is: "[PATCH RT 3/4] sched:

Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

2015-03-17 Thread Ronny Meeus
I'm using a patched kernel I get from Monta-Vista, it is based on the 3.10 kernel with some RT patches. We ported an application from pSOS RTOS to Linux using the Xenomai-Mercury (=library to map pSOS task to POSIX threads). One of the patches applied to our kernel is: [PATCH RT 3/4] sched:

CPULoad measurement

2014-02-26 Thread Ronny Meeus
Hello My application consists of several hundreds of threads. I want to create a loadcontrol mechanism at application level so that when the cpuload of a group of threads crosses a certain (configurable) threshold, the threads will voluntary yield until the load condition is over. For this I need

CPULoad measurement

2014-02-26 Thread Ronny Meeus
Hello My application consists of several hundreds of threads. I want to create a loadcontrol mechanism at application level so that when the cpuload of a group of threads crosses a certain (configurable) threshold, the threads will voluntary yield until the load condition is over. For this I need

Re: Question about idle time in /proc/stat

2012-11-20 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Ronny Meeus wrote: > Hello > > I have an created an application that measures the cpuload consumed by > the tasks within a process. > For this I use the file /proc/stat and /proc//tasks//stat > > The cpuload monitor is a very simple applicati

Re: Question about idle time in /proc/stat

2012-11-20 Thread Ronny Meeus
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Ronny Meeus ronny.me...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have an created an application that measures the cpuload consumed by the tasks within a process. For this I use the file /proc/stat and /proc/pid/tasks/tid/stat The cpuload monitor is a very simple application