Le Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 06:06:54PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya a écrit :
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 11:42:47AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > +- :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst <Cpuset v2 "isolated"
> > + partitions>`
> > + are recommended because they are tunable at runtime.
>
> Anchor link target and name are mistakenly swapped so I have to correct them
> back to their appropriate places:
>
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cpu-isolation.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cpu-isolation.rst
> index 250027acf7b26f..aef0b53b0ad5e6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cpu-isolation.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cpu-isolation.rst
> @@ -107,9 +107,8 @@ are extracted from the global load balancing.
> Interface
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> -- :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst <Cpuset v2 "isolated"
> - partitions>`
> - are recommended because they are tunable at runtime.
> +- :doc:`cgroup cpuset isolated partitions <cgroup-v2>` are recommended because
> + they are tunable at runtime.
>
> - The 'isolcpus=' kernel boot parameter with the 'domain' flag is a
> less flexible alternative that doesn't allow for runtime
> @@ -124,7 +123,8 @@ target CPUs.
> Interface
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> -- /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity as explained :ref:`Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-affinity.rst <here>` in detail.
> +- /proc/irq/\*/smp_affinity as explained in
> + Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-affinity.rst.
>
> - The "irqaffinity=" kernel boot parameter for a default setting.
>
> @@ -330,9 +330,8 @@ retained when that happens.
>
> Some tools may also be useful for higher level analysis:
>
> -- :ref:`Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise.rst <rtla-osnoise>` runs a kernel
> - tracer that analyzes and output a
> - summary of the noises.
> +- :doc:`rtla-osnoise </tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise>` runs a kernel tracer that
> + analyzes and output a summary of the noises.
>
> - dynticks-testing does something similar but in userspace. It is available
> at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/dynticks-testing.git
>
> > +The full command line is then:
> > +
> > + nohz_full=7 irqaffinity=0-6 isolcpus=managed_irq,7 nosmt
> > +
> > +CPUSET configuration (cgroup v2)
> > +--------------------------------
> > +
> > +Assuming cgroup v2 is mounted to /sys/fs/cgroup, the following script
> > +isolates CPU 7 from scheduler domains.
> > +
> > + cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> > + # Activate the cpuset subsystem
> > + echo +cpuset > cgroup.subtree_control
> > + # Create partition to be isolated
> > + mkdir test
> > + cd test
> > + echo +cpuset > cgroup.subtree_control
> > + # Isolate CPU 7
> > + echo 7 > cpuset.cpus
> > + echo "isolated" > cpuset.cpus.partition
> > +
> > +The userspace workload
> > +----------------------
> > +
> > +Fake a pure userspace workload, the below program runs a dummy
> > +userspace loop on the isolated CPU 7.
> > +
> > + #include <stdio.h>
> > + #include <fcntl.h>
> > + #include <unistd.h>
> > + #include <errno.h>
> > + int main(void)
> > + {
> > + // Move the current task to the isolated cpuset (bind to CPU 7)
> > + int fd = open("/sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs", O_WRONLY);
> > + if (fd < 0) {
> > + perror("Can't open cpuset file...\n");
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > + write(fd, "0\n", 2);
> > + close(fd);
> > +
> > + // Run an endless dummy loop until the launcher kills us
> > + while (1)
> > + ;
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > +Build it and save for later step:
> > +
> > + # gcc user_loop.c -o user_loop
> > +
> > +The launcher
> > +------------
> > +
> > +The below launcher runs the above program for 10 seconds and traces
> > +the noise resulting from preempting tasks and IRQs.
> > +
> > + TRACING=/sys/kernel/tracing/
> > + # Make sure tracing is off for now
> > + echo 0 > $TRACING/tracing_on
> > + # Flush previous traces
> > + echo > $TRACING/trace
> > + # Record disturbance from other tasks
> > + echo 1 > $TRACING/events/sched/sched_switch/enable
> > + # Record disturbance from interrupts
> > + echo 1 > $TRACING/events/irq_vectors/enable
> > + # Now we can start tracing
> > + echo 1 > $TRACING/tracing_on
> > + # Run the dummy user_loop for 10 seconds on CPU 7
> > + ./user_loop &
> > + USER_LOOP_PID=$!
> > + sleep 10
> > + kill $USER_LOOP_PID
> > + # Disable tracing and save traces from CPU 7 in a file
> > + echo 0 > $TRACING/tracing_on
> > + cat $TRACING/per_cpu/cpu7/trace > trace.7
> > +
> > +If no specific problem arose, the output of trace.7 should look like
> > +the following:
> > +
> > + <idle>-0 [007] d..2. 1980.976624: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/7 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=user_loop next_pid=1553 next_prio=120
> > + user_loop-1553 [007] d.h.. 1990.946593: reschedule_entry: vector=253
> > + user_loop-1553 [007] d.h.. 1990.946593: reschedule_exit: vector=253
>
> Wrap these snippets above in literal code blocks.
>
> Thanks.
Thanks, I'll do these modifications. I had a hard time building the
documentation (still haven't managed so far) so I missed the actual
rendering. Hopefully I'll figure it out at some point.
--
Frederic Weisbecker
SUSE Labs
