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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] RTCAN and tsc
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To: roland Tollenaar <rolandtollenaar@domain.hid>
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roland Tollenaar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One thought did occur to me wrt to the problem of rtcan breaking RT
> behaviour. I am not using TSC support (IPC's we have are all 486
> processor family). I was told that this will give slightly worse
> latency but at a 1ms period time this should not be a problem.
> 
> Just want to confirm at this stage that this is still correct?

Just run latency -p 1000 with some load. If you observe abnormal
latencies with the latency test, then you have a hardware problem. If
you observe normal latencies with the latency test, then your
application has a problem.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix