I have a DN2800MT Atom motherboard that I want to run Linuxcnc on.  I am using 
a Mesa 6I25 for step/dir so I am not much worried about latency.  I know this 
board isn't ideal, but in the past I recall measuring latency of around 33k-40k 
or so which was fine.  I did that with an older version of Linuxcnc (I think 
2.5.X) after setting the isolcpus=1 parameter.  Yesterday I put the latest 
Linuxcnc from the LiveCD on this system - version 2.6.5 on Wheezy (and did 
software updates afterwards).  I launched the latency app, one instance of 
glxgears, and went home.  This morning I see the following

Servo thread Max Jitter:  770360
Base thread Max Jitter: 771712

I recalled that I need to set isolcpus this morning so I went to read about 
that here and the last thing on the page 
(http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?The_Isolcpus_Boot_Parameter_And_GRUB2)
 says this will no longer be required "in the near future"?  Does the latest 
need this parameter set, and is that my problem, or is this not required, and 
if so, why would the latency be so different than it was in 2.5?

-Tom


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