Re: Zephyr as UOS slows down when SOS is busy
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Hi Alfonso,
#1 Did you calibrate the zephyr clock rate? I am not an expert on Zephyr, as I known, clock calibration is needed in Zephyr.
#2 Echo to Geoffroy, heavy workloads on SOS may have significant impact on guest VM if no CAT to do LLC isolation.
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From: acrn-users@... <acrn-users@...>
On Behalf Of Alfonso Sanchez-Beato
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 8:08 PM To: acrn-users@... Subject: [acrn-users] Zephyr as UOS slows down when SOS is busy
Hello,
I have been playing with using Zephyr as UOS on top of Ubuntu as SOS, using the Industry scenario and launching the UOS with launch_zephyr.sh.
I created this small program to prove that Zephyr was not affected by what happened in the SOS: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/c3j9XwvrT6/ (with config https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/sPhwTRrRTZ/). The program simply calculates the number of primes below a number and prints the time spent.
Although the problem runs and I get output from the serial port, I found two problems:
1. gettimeofday is not returning good times, the elapsed time is ~20 times more than the real one. I see the same problem when using k_uptime_get and k_uptime_delta. It looks related to handling of the HW clock, but the pre-defined frequency (100) seems correct.
2. More importantly, I see that the time spent in the calculation varies when I do something CPU intensive on the SOS. For instance, if I run the same calculation on the SOS, I see that Zephyr is expending 5% more time in the calculation, which should not happen and defeats the purpose of this set-up.
ACRN version is: HV version 1.4-unstable-2020-01-09 09:45:06-bcefd673 DBG (daily tag: acrn-2019w47.1-140000p) build by ubuntu
Any ideas on what might be going on?
Thanks Alfonso
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