Re: [Xenomai] xenomai smp - how it works

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 09/30/2013 06:37 PM, Roberto Bielli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i would like to know how works in theory xenomai on smp system (with 
> local timers, imx6q for example).

On mx6q specifically, it seems the framebuffer is a latency killer,
probably because of cache effects, the L2 full cache flush seems also to
need splitting, but it may be a side effect of the framebuffer driver. I
would recommend to try and map the framebuffer uncached to avoid
disturbing the cache when writing to the framebuffer. At the expense of
course of the graphic performance. I did not experience this first hand,
it was only reported to me, so I am not sure of my diagnosis. What I
could observe on other cortex A9 (OMAP4) is that the L2 cache spinlock
creates large latencies as well, but the latest versions of the I-pipe
patch should avoid this issue.

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                                                                Gilles.