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Bug 1707113

Summary: hwlatdetect requires tuning to pass
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Karl Rister <krister>
Component: rt-testsAssignee: John Kacur <jkacur>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Qiao Zhao <qzhao>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 7.8CC: atheurer, bhu, daolivei, juri.lelli, lcapitulino, qzhao, snagar, williams
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: 1707505 1711326 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:05:47 UTC Type: Bug
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Patch to disable c-states while detector is running none

Description Karl Rister 2019-05-06 20:04:54 UTC
Description of problem:

When running hwlatdetect on the RT kernel it can only pass when the realtime-virtual-host tuned profile is applied.  Attempting to manually apply only the kernel command line parameters from realtime-virtual-host does not result in a passing test.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel = 3.10.0-1040.rt56.999.el7.x86_64
rt-tests = rt-tests-1.0-15
tuned = tuned-profiles-nfv-host-2.11.0-2.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rt-kernel and rt-tests and reboot
2. run hwlatdetect

Actual results:
High (>10us) samples are reported.  When the realtime-virtual-host profile is applied then no samples are reported.


Expected results:
No samples should be reported.


Additional info:

Comment 2 Clark Williams 2019-05-06 20:16:56 UTC
Created attachment 1564769 [details]
Patch to disable c-states while detector is running

This patch uses the /dev/cpu_dma_latency mechanism to disable c-state transitions while the hwlatdector script is running.

Comment 4 Karl Rister 2019-05-07 22:36:30 UTC
I pulled down the git repo for rt-tests and using the unstable branch I tested with and without Clark's c-state patch.  Without the patch I still see 13us max latency with hwlatdetect.  With the patch I get 6us max latency (using --threshold=1).

Note: on this system (Dell R740xd with Intel Xeon Gold 6130) both C1E and C-States are explicitly disabled in the BIOS/UEFI interface.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 13:05:47 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2210