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From: Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>
To: Iwo Mergler <iwo@call-direct.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: interrupt overhead on ARM architecture
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488EC1DA.7000708@manoweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488EA477.7070101@call-direct.com.au>

Iwo Mergler wrote:

> In other words, you can't even measure the latency on a particular
> system and then assume it will stay anywhere near constant. Comparing
> different systems with the same processor core is hopeless.

Everything makes perfect sense. For this reason, I am willing to do some
tests on my own platform. How would you suggest to proceed? I would need
an extremely accurate way to measure time to begin with and then:

- read that time reference
- generate an interrupt by placing some data in a device or so
- reading again that time reference as first thing in the ISR
- save the result

- do the above in various scenarios, with different drivers enabled, CPU
load, etc etc

bye
Alessio


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29  2:23 interrupt overhead on ARM architecture Alessio Sangalli
2008-07-29  5:02 ` Iwo Mergler
2008-07-29  7:08   ` Alessio Sangalli [this message]
2008-07-29 10:47     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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