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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:04 +0200
From:      Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Sam Xia <xiazhongqi@huawei.com>
Subject:   Re: 1. thread switching time? (Krassimir Slavchev)
Message-ID:  <490ACA04.6060203@bulinfo.net>
In-Reply-To: <490AB750.9040505@elischer.org>
References:  <000001c93b0c$6195e6b0$2f096f0a@china.huawei.com>	<490AB477.2080001@bulinfo.net> <490AB750.9040505@elischer.org>

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Hello Julian,

Julian Elischer wrote:
> Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
> 
>>
>> Also, I am able to set HZ=100000 but the thread switching time is still
>> ~1ms.
> 
> You must be talking about the time that a thread can run before it is
> pushed out by other threads?  I know I've seem many x 10,000 context
> switches in some cases, i.e. look at very high interrupt rates
> etc. so I guess I'm not sure what you are measuring..

Okay, I have a thread with:

while(1) {
	clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &tv);
	nanosleep(&delay, NULL);
	clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &tv2);
	timespecsub(&tv2, &tv);
}

If the delay is configured to be 0 < delay < 1ms I always get ~1ms delay.
Since nanosleep() is a cancellation point this means that the scheduler
will switch to another thread.
If the delay = 0 I get ~1600ns delay.

Yes. You are right. This is "the time that a thread can run before it is
pushed out by other threads".

Is there a way to decrease this time?

> 
> at one time the scheduling quantum was independent of Hz.
> I am not sure how true that is now..
> 

It seems to be independent of HZ.


Best Regards

> 
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