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| 1 | +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
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| 3 | +============ |
| 4 | +rtla-hwnoise |
| 5 | +============ |
| 6 | +------------------------------------------ |
| 7 | +Detect and quantify hardware-related noise |
| 8 | +------------------------------------------ |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +:Manual section: 1 |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +SYNOPSIS |
| 13 | +======== |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +**rtla hwnoise** [*OPTIONS*] |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +DESCRIPTION |
| 18 | +=========== |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +**rtla hwnoise** collects the periodic summary from the *osnoise* tracer |
| 21 | +running with *interrupts disabled*. By disabling interrupts, and the scheduling |
| 22 | +of threads as a consequence, only non-maskable interrupts and hardware-related |
| 23 | +noise is allowed. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +The tool also allows the configurations of the *osnoise* tracer and the |
| 26 | +collection of the tracer output. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +OPTIONS |
| 29 | +======= |
| 30 | +.. include:: common_osnoise_options.rst |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +.. include:: common_top_options.rst |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +.. include:: common_options.rst |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +EXAMPLE |
| 37 | +======= |
| 38 | +In the example below, the **rtla hwnoise** tool is set to run on CPUs *1-7* |
| 39 | +on a system with 8 cores/16 threads with hyper-threading enabled. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +The tool is set to detect any noise higher than *one microsecond*, |
| 42 | +to run for *ten minutes*, displaying a summary of the report at the |
| 43 | +end of the session:: |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + # rtla hwnoise -c 1-7 -T 1 -d 10m -q |
| 46 | + Hardware-related Noise |
| 47 | + duration: 0 00:10:00 | time is in us |
| 48 | + CPU Period Runtime Noise % CPU Aval Max Noise Max Single HW NMI |
| 49 | + 1 #599 599000000 138 99.99997 3 3 4 74 |
| 50 | + 2 #599 599000000 85 99.99998 3 3 4 75 |
| 51 | + 3 #599 599000000 86 99.99998 4 3 6 75 |
| 52 | + 4 #599 599000000 81 99.99998 4 4 2 75 |
| 53 | + 5 #599 599000000 85 99.99998 2 2 2 75 |
| 54 | + 6 #599 599000000 76 99.99998 2 2 0 75 |
| 55 | + 7 #599 599000000 77 99.99998 3 3 0 75 |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +The first column shows the *CPU*, and the second column shows how many |
| 59 | +*Periods* the tool ran during the session. The *Runtime* is the time |
| 60 | +the tool effectively runs on the CPU. The *Noise* column is the sum of |
| 61 | +all noise that the tool observed, and the *% CPU Aval* is the relation |
| 62 | +between the *Runtime* and *Noise*. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +The *Max Noise* column is the maximum hardware noise the tool detected in a |
| 65 | +single period, and the *Max Single* is the maximum single noise seen. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +The *HW* and *NMI* columns show the total number of *hardware* and *NMI* noise |
| 68 | +occurrence observed by the tool. |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +For example, *CPU 3* ran *599* periods of *1 second Runtime*. The CPU received |
| 71 | +*86 us* of noise during the entire execution, leaving *99.99997 %* of CPU time |
| 72 | +for the application. In the worst single period, the CPU caused *4 us* of |
| 73 | +noise to the application, but it was certainly caused by more than one single |
| 74 | +noise, as the *Max Single* noise was of *3 us*. The CPU has *HW noise,* at a |
| 75 | +rate of *six occurrences*/*ten minutes*. The CPU also has *NMIs*, at a higher |
| 76 | +frequency: around *seven per second*. |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +The tool should report *0* hardware-related noise in the ideal situation. |
| 79 | +For example, by disabling hyper-threading to remove the hardware noise, |
| 80 | +and disabling the TSC watchdog to remove the NMI (it is possible to identify |
| 81 | +this using tracing options of **rtla hwnoise**), it was possible to reach |
| 82 | +the ideal situation in the same hardware:: |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | + # rtla hwnoise -c 1-7 -T 1 -d 10m -q |
| 85 | + Hardware-related Noise |
| 86 | + duration: 0 00:10:00 | time is in us |
| 87 | + CPU Period Runtime Noise % CPU Aval Max Noise Max Single HW NMI |
| 88 | + 1 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 89 | + 2 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 90 | + 3 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 91 | + 4 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 92 | + 5 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 93 | + 6 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 94 | + 7 #599 599000000 0 100.00000 0 0 0 0 |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +SEE ALSO |
| 97 | +======== |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +**rtla-osnoise**\(1) |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | +Osnoise tracer documentation: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/osnoise-tracer.html> |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +AUTHOR |
| 104 | +====== |
| 105 | +Written by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira < [email protected]> |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +.. include:: common_appendix.rst |
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