Re: Latency spikes on V6.15.1 Preempt RT and maybe related to intel? IGB

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2025-06-17 12:03:31 [+0200], Marc Strämke wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi,

> On 17.06.25 12:00, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > Even if CPU1 would handle CPU0's timers then it would wake cyclictest on
> > CPU0 but that thread would have to wake until CPU0 is done with the PCI
> > bus. CPU1 knows nothing about it.
> 
> Okay then the latency I see on the other CPU must be from a PCI access done
> by the second CPU which stall on the same shared bus.

Okay.
> 
> Anyway: Thanks for your help Sebastian! I can probably live well with these
> spikes in latency. I was more concerned that there is a deeper issue with my
> config and the response time could be unbounded.

You don't have to live with it. You could add a read after the writes in
the loop (wrfl()). This should help.
Some Intel CPUs have a MSR bit to disable this kind of caching on the
PCI bus. Maybe the AMD CPU has this, too. Or there might be a switch in
the BIOS.

> Marc

Sebastian