Just a short post to let you know this blog is not dead. I have not written anything in several months. While I have several posts that are partially complete, I have not been able to finish them…..yet.
For the past several months, I have been busy studying for the CCIE Wireless lab exam. Prior to that, I was sort of working towards the CCIE Route/Switch written and lab exam. I wasn’t fully committed, so my studying was sporadic at best. My heart just wasn’t in forcing myself to learn more about IPv6, multicast, MPLS, and some of the other blueprint items.
Somewhere along the line it changed. Maybe it was having another co-worker who was serious in his pursuit of the CCIE Wireless. Maybe it was that my job working for a reseller had me doing more and more Cisco wireless work. Maybe I just liked the fact that wireless was hard. I’m not really sure. I just know that at some point, a switch flipped inside my head and I just decided to go all in on my studies. Honestly, I should have done this years ago, but the timing just didn’t seem right.
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When nanoseconds matter you have to pay attention to OS scheduling details. Mark Price, who works in the rarified high performance environment of high finance, shows how in his excellent article on Reducing system jitter.
For a tuning example he uses the famous Disrupter inter-thread messaging library. The goal is to keep the OS continuously feeding CPUs work from high priority threads. His baseline test shows the fastest message is sent in 76 nanoseconds, 1 in 100 messages took longer than 2 milliseconds, and the longest delay was 11 milliseconds.
The next section of the article shows in loving detail how to bring those latencies lower and more consistent, a job many people will need to do in practice. You'll want to read the article for a full explanation, including how to use perf_events and HdrHistogram. It's really great at showing the process, but in short: