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* 3.12.6-rt9 on AM335x (armv7)
@ 2014-01-01 16:37 Matthias Fuchs
  2014-01-06 19:48 ` Matthias Fuchs
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Matthias Fuchs @ 2014-01-01 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-rt-users

Hi,

I did a setup with 3.12.6-rt9 kernel on a Beaglebone board
with an TI AM335x CPU running at fixed 720MHz. The kernel uses the 
omap2plus_defconfig configuration that comes with this kernel with 
additional CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL switched on.

I am observing some strange max. latencies when comparing with kernel 
3.2.45-rt66. The results of a similiar system can be found on the OSADL lab
site (https://www.osadl.org/Latency-plot-of-system-in-rack-7-slot.qa-latencyplot-r7s5.0.html).

With "cyclictest -p99 -m -n -i200 -h400 -q -l10000000" I get
...
# Min Latencies: 00013
# Avg Latencies: 00062
# Max Latencies: 04664
...

Also the latency does not differ much from that when doing a flood ping against 
the system as simple stress.

3.2.45-rt66 comes with a max. latency of 118us! So I expect something to be wrong with 3.12.6-rt9
at least on armv7 or especially this device (max. lat. 4664us).

I also noticed an issue with the on-chip ethernet when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL is
switched on with this kernel:

I also noticed that the 3.12.6-rt9 with enabled 
[    2.817024] net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)
[    2.825269] net eth0: phy found : id is : 0x7c0f1
[    2.830713] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
[    2.835777] net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1
[   12.846394] Waiting up to 110 more seconds for network.
[   22.846147] Waiting up to 100 more seconds for network.
...

Finally networking is fine. But I need to wait for 110 seconds :-)

Prior testing with 3.12.6-rt9 I did the same test with 3.12.5-rt7. Same results.
But without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL I do not get this bringup delay. I could not do this 
test with rt9 because it does not build without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL!

Any ideas?

Matthias

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2014-01-06 19:48 ` Matthias Fuchs
2014-01-07  8:38   ` Tim Sander
2014-01-07 21:20     ` Matthias Fuchs
2014-01-07 22:58       ` Tim Sander
2014-01-07 23:46         ` Pavel Vasilyev
2014-01-08  8:08           ` Matthias Fuchs
2014-01-08  8:06         ` Matthias Fuchs
2014-02-07 16:07           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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