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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: rpm@xenomai.org
Cc: Xenomai-help@domain.hid
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Latency calculation and test
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:44:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463A1174.60105@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178208712.29605.109.camel@domain.hid>

Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 17:07 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> 
> That was not my point. My point was: don't stuff huge semi-random values
> into /proc/xenomai/latency to work around terrible jittery especially
> when porting Xenomai over new platforms, because this is _likely_ the
> sign of something going wrong elsewhere.
> 
> E.g. An oldish 90Mhz classic pentium exhibits ~25 us core latency
> figures with Xenomai; some ARM hw may require more because of
> unfortunate memory sub-systems, but in any case, you have to
> _understand_ (e.g. using the tracer) why it is so, first.

I agree. I still have to see for myself why these damned ARMs have such
high latencies.


>>We should add a page on the wiki about the latency calibration.
>>
> 
> 
> We should also provide an external tool for determining the most
> appropriate latency for a given workload / configuration.

The latency tool already does a great deal of this job.

-- 
                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-03 12:35 [Xenomai-help] Latency calculation and test Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-03 13:29 ` Philippe Gerum
2007-05-03 14:07   ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-05-04  7:58   ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-04  9:17     ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-05-04 12:32     ` Philippe Gerum
2007-05-04 12:43       ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-07  6:51         ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-07  8:29         ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-07  8:58           ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-07 11:58             ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-07 12:11               ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-07 12:37                 ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-07 13:52                   ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-08  6:57                     ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-09  7:17                       ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-09  7:49                         ` Philippe Gerum
2007-05-07 12:30           ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-05-07 13:21             ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-03 13:42 ` Daniel Schnell
2007-05-03 14:54   ` Philippe Gerum
2007-05-03 15:07     ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-05-03 15:43       ` Daniel Schnell
2007-05-03 18:42         ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-05-03 18:47           ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-04  6:51             ` Daniel Schnell
2007-05-03 16:11       ` Philippe Gerum
2007-05-03 16:44         ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]
2007-05-03 17:17           ` Philippe Gerum
2007-05-03 17:26             ` Jan Kiszka
2007-05-04 12:46           ` Bill Gatliff
2007-05-04  8:04   ` Johan Borkhuis
2007-05-03 14:38 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2007-05-03 19:23   ` Gilles Chanteperdrix

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