EASTPCS降低延迟方法①.PDF

2016 年 第 25 卷 第 3 期 计 算 机 系 统 应 用 EAST PCS 降低延迟方法① 刘 佳, 肖炳甲, 袁旗平 ( 中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院, 合肥 230031) 摘 要: 现期等离子体控制系统的控制周期是 100 微秒, 由于数据传输、多 CPU 间算法匹配失当等原因造成的延 迟可以达到 80 微秒, 但理论上的延迟应当不超过 15 微秒, 因此需要平衡多 CPU 间的负载来提高 CPU 间的配合 度, 从而在降低延迟的同时也可以提高控制系统的性能. 同时, 通过多线程并行技术及共享内存技术将系统中较 耗时的读取反射内存卡(Reflective Memory, RFM)过程与进程并行进行, 可以将系统的控制周期缩短到 50 微妙, 而延迟也可以降低到 20 微秒以下, 从而极大的提高 PCS 的工作效率, 降低不必要的延迟, 避免成为多系统集群 中的时间瓶颈. 关键词: 控制周期; 延迟; 负载均衡; 并行; 线程; 共享内存 Latency Reduction of EAST PCS LIU Jia, XIAO Bing-Jia, YUAN Qi-Ping (Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China) Abstract: The control cycle of the Plasma Control System(PCS)currently is 100 μs and the delay could reach to 80 μs due to the data transfer and the inadequate cooperation among different CPUs. However, the delay in theory is within 15μs, so the loads of all the CPUs need to be balanced in order to reduce the delay and improve the performance of this control system. In addition, with the multi-thread parallel technique and shared memory, the time-consuming process of reading data from RFM can run in parallel with the main process, which could shorten the control cycle to 50 μs and the delay to 30 μs or less. Therefore, the efficiency of PCS could be highly promoted and the reduction of unnecessary delay could prevent PCS from becoming the bottleneck of the whole TOKAMAK control system. Key words: control cycle; delay; load balancing; parallel; thread; shared memory [3] EAST(Experimental Advanced Superconductive 的平均分配时间以及线程之间的沟通时间大大增加 , Tokamak)是国家大科学工程项目全超导托卡马克实验 从而造成程序在不同 CPU 间不停切换而产生的“乒乓 装置[1], 其等离子控制系统PCS(Plasma Control System) 效应”, 这是在做程序并行时需要