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Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 00:07:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] rtdm_event_timedwait returns -EINTR
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To: Thomas Lockhart <Thomas.Lockhart@domain.hid>
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On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 14:35 -0700, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> >  Mmm, actually, I would bet that this latency is caused by an
> >  inter-CPU TLB flush request; this is a bug fixed in recent releases
> >  of the I-pipe patch, both for 2.6.28.9 and 2.6.29.1. There is no
> >  backport for 2.6.26, but you should be able to apply this commit
> >  manually:
> > 
> http://git.denx.de/?p=ipipe-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69f7e0c005eca37a04104dd85f30095791e8c2f7
> 
> That was easy to patch manually and seems to have helped a lot. I'm 
> still seeing an occasional "spike" of about 35usec or so every few 
> minutes but the majority of the spikes (hmm, the latency is still pretty 
> good so I hate to call them spikes; maybe "bumps"?) have gone away. 
> Thanks for the suggestion!
> 
> Would it be helpful if I integrated this patch into the 2.6.26 support?
> 

Yep.

>                                       - Tom
-- 
Philippe.