Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] fold per-CPU vmstats remotely

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Apr 20 2023 - 03:56:14 EST


On Wed 19-04-23 08:44:23, Andrew Theurer wrote:
> > On Apr 19, 2023, at 6:15 AM, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Andrew Theurer, can you please explain what problem is the vmstat_work
> >> interruption causing in your testing?
> >
> > +CC Andrew.
>
> Nearly every telco we work with for 5G RAN is demanding <20 usec CPU
> latency as measured by cyclictest & oslat. We cannot achieve under 20
> usec with the vmstats interruption.

Are you able to get those latency requirements with PREEMPT_RT?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs