Supermicro HFT Low Latency/Jitter Optimization User's Guide
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1. SUPERMICR Supermicro HFT Low Latency Jitter Optimization User s Guide Revision 1 0 The information in this USER S MANUAL has been carefully reviewed and is believed to be accurate The vendor assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in this document makes no commitment to update or to keep current the information in this manual or to notify any person organization of the updates Please Note For the most up to date version of this manual please see our web site at www supermicro com Super Micro Computer Inc Supermicro reserves the right to make changes to the product described in this manual at any time and without notice This product including software if any and documentation may not in whole or in part be copied photocopied reproduced translated or reduced to any medium or machine without prior written consent IN NO EVENT WILL SUPERMICRO BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL SPECULATIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USETHIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCHDAMAGES IN PARTICULAR SUPERMICRO SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE PRODUCT INCLUDING THE COSTS OFREPAIRING REPLACING INTEGRATING INSTALLING OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA Any disputes arising between manufacturer and customer shall be governed by the laws of Santa Clara Count2. hange without notice Other products and companies referred to herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or mark holders Copyright O 2014 by Super Micro Computer Inc All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Supermicro HFT Low Latency Jitter Optimization Guide Introduction These instructions are optimized for the SYS 6027AX 72RF TRF HFT3 system using Mellanox MCX354A cards Steps will vary depending on SW application requirements OS and NIC 1 1 OS Optimizations p en HT a Fresh minimal OS install of either SL RHEL 6 4 OS Boot command line intel idle max cstateO processor max_cstate 0 idle poll pcie_aspm performance mcezignore ce isolcpus 2 3 4 Configure noatime for OS partition Disable all unnecessary services using chkconfig command Install coupower tuned tuna utilities Run the following commands to tune the system roo re mae ane sysctl kernel sched_wakeup_granularity_ns 3000000 Modprobe acpi cpufreq cpupower set perf bias 0 cpupower frequency set governor performance tuned adm profile latency performance tuna SO i tuna S1 i ipmi si force kipmid 0 nmi watchdog 0 intel iommuzoff noht apm disabled nosoftlockup Use taskset or numactl to bind application to specific CPU core 1 2 BIOS IPMI Optimizations 1 Set IPMI fan speed to Full 2 Disabling USB controllers and SCU controller PCH chipset s storage cont
3. roller can help limit interrupts Supermicro HFT Low Latency Jitter Optimization Guide 1 3 Reading the CPU Frequency in Linux To check the CPU frequency in a Linux environment use the turbostat I 1 command Supermicro HFT Low Latency Jitter Optimization Guide
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