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From: "Iain Sandoe" <iain@sandoe.co.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, jsun@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [ANN] IRQ Latency tool 0.1.3 release.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:29:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007251835.TAA17680@hyperion.valhalla.net> (raw)


On Tue, Jul 25, 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Iain Sandoe wrote:
[...]
>> I still haven't found the "hard-block" that is effecting the overall audio
>> latency performance... ah well, back to the drawing board...
>
> Do you have IDE? The IDE driver turned out to be the major interrupt messing
> problem on m68k, since it can disable interrupts for quite a while.

I do, but the audio latency test (which is what promoted this interest in
doing the IRQ measurement) doesn't stress the IDE (I only have a CDROM on
the IDE bus).  All the disk activity is via the AppleSCSI card.

However, I would like others with different configurations to try out the
test(s)... it's not much use if acceptable performance sound only happens on
*my* machine :-)

It's also true that all the 'little' IRQ blocks do add up - as I said when
my system is stressed up to 5% of the total elapsed time can be blocked... a
good motivation for driver writers to tune things methinks...

Iain.

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             reply	other threads:[~2000-07-25 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-25 18:29 Iain Sandoe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-07-26 18:42 [ANN] IRQ Latency tool 0.1.3 release Iain Sandoe
2000-07-25 21:53 Iain Sandoe
2000-07-24 22:44 Iain Sandoe
2000-07-25 12:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-25 18:23   ` Jun Sun
2000-07-25 21:39   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-26 11:54     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-28 10:13       ` Takashi Oe
2000-07-28 14:51         ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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