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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
To: CHABAL David <david.chabal@domain.hid>
Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] awful latencies (~110us)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:24:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192634673.5973.33.camel@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471621C8.9070006@domain.hid>

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:52 +0200, CHABAL David wrote:
> > 
> > Grmmff... I think the PIC on this box has some deep troubles; please try
> > this patch, in replacement of the previous ipipe_trace_special
> > instrumentation:
> > 
> 
> 
> RTD|       8.348|      10.387|      43.647|       0|       6.098| 
> 80.440
> ---|------------|------------|------------|--------|-------------------------
> RTS|       6.098|      10.020|      80.440|       0|    00:17:20/00:17:20
> [root@domain.hid bin]#
> 
> 
> IRQ handling takes 17µs in the worst case.
> 
> It takes a long time to write 3 poor bytes...
> 

Indeed. Each outb to the ISA bus should be somewhere in the 1-2.5 us
range depending on the hw, maybe a bit higher in case of contention, but
not that much.

> May be is it a SMI problem ??? (Globally disable SMI is on)
> 

It's less likely with an ICH-2 chipset.

I see that CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is disabled. Any reason not to use PCI
DMA when available for IDE drives with your hw?

-- 
Philippe.




  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-05  7:52 [Xenomai-help] awful latencies (~110us) CHABAL David
2007-10-05  8:30 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-10-05  9:04   ` CHABAL David
2007-10-05  9:20     ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-05 10:29       ` CHABAL David
2007-10-05 12:35         ` Jan Kiszka
2007-10-05 14:02         ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-08 12:46           ` CHABAL David
2007-10-10 11:30             ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-12 14:05               ` CHABAL David
2007-10-12 14:21                 ` Jan Kiszka
2007-10-12 14:26                   ` CHABAL David
2007-10-12 15:34                   ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-12 15:49                     ` Jan Kiszka
2007-10-12 16:43                       ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-17  8:25                         ` CHABAL David
2007-10-17  8:41                           ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-17  8:55                             ` CHABAL David
2007-10-17  9:17                               ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-17 13:14                                 ` CHABAL David
2007-10-17 13:46                                   ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-17 14:52                                     ` CHABAL David
2007-10-17 15:24                                       ` Philippe Gerum [this message]
2007-10-17 15:46                                         ` CHABAL David
2007-10-17 16:05                                           ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-18 12:38                                             ` CHABAL David
2007-10-18 13:18                                               ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-22 14:28                                                 ` CHABAL David
2007-10-17  8:56                             ` Philippe Gerum
2007-10-17  8:43                           ` Philippe Gerum

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