Re: Kernel 4.6.7-rt13: Intel Ethernet driver igb causes huge latencies in cyclictest

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:06:33AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:58:22AM +0000, Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5) wrote:

quoted

@@ -753,7 +756,9 @@ u32 igb_rd32(struct e1000_hw *hw, u32 re
 	if (E1000_REMOVED(hw_addr))
 		return ~value;
 
+        trace_igb(801);
 	value = readl(&hw_addr[reg]);
+        trace_igb(802);

Nothing prevents this code from being preempted between the two trace
points, and so you can't be sure whether the time delta in the trace
is caused by the PCIe read stalling or not.

While that is certainly the case, and would explain the most egregious
of measured latency spikes, it doesn't invalidate the test if you
consider the valuable data point(s) to be the minimum and/or median
latencies.

   Julia