No have have not seen this script, thanks. With modification to use correct 
Ethernet interface it will most
certainly work.

Script set IRQ affinity for Ethernet card interrupts. I also moved away other 
IRQs from CPU used for Ethernet
interrupts. If I got it correct script also change priority and affinity the 
IRQS used fro Ethernet interrupts, I
did not do this and expect it is an improvement.

Note rx-usecs and tx-usecs is set to zero. If i remember manual correct this 
mean blocking call and this might be
a problem if a packet is dropped never arrive but there is also a timeout on 
function call to recv(...). Pretty
sure I used 1 µs for these parameters.


I also used ISOLcpu and a few other parameters.


Nicklas Karlsson


sön 2026-09-20 klockan 06:38 +0200 skrev [email protected]:
> Did you try Hannes script?
> https://github.com/hdiethelm/xenomai4-linuxcnc/issues/2#issuecomment-
> 5345811568
> 
> I350 must be combined.
> 
> "---------- Původní zpráva ----------
> Od: Nicklas SB Karlsson <[email protected]>
> Datum: 20.09.2026 02:26:23
> Předmět: Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet send packets jitter
> 
> Yes isolate the last CPU and pin the Ethernet IRQd to that CPU and pin other
> interrupts seems to do the trick.
> Running for six minutes worst delay of received packet is slightly above 153
> µs.
> 
> If some other interrupt prevented receiving of ethernet frame it also agree 
> with latency on receive I measured
> earlier.
> 
> This is on the I350 card there I previously had delays of up to around 15 
> milliseconds followed by a burst of
> receives. If I could get the hardware time trigger to sending of frames then
> transmission would be perfect,
> equally spaced exactly at the intended, this is a small detail I do not 
> however think make any difference in
> practice.
> 
> Regard Nicklas Karlsson
> 
> 
> tor 2026-09-17 klockan 07:28 -0700 skrev Peter Wallace:
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, andy pugh wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 16 Sept 2026 at 21:20, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Running Linuxcnc and send receive Ethernet jitter is small for most 
> packets but sometimes there is delay of well
> > > > above on millisecond, running for maybe a minute or so worst case is 
> between 6...7 milliseconds.
> > > 
> > > Maybe you need to disable IRQ coalescing? It's mentioned briefly in
> > > the hm2_eth docs, but also might be relevant to EtherCAT.
> > > https://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/man/man9/hm2_eth.9.html
> > > 
> > > (It's at least a google-able phrase for further investigation)
> > 
> > At least for hm2_eth, basic Network latency improvement methods are:
> > 
> > 
> > On Intel (and some less common others like broadcom), disable IRQ 
> coalescing
> > 
> > On Realtek, install the DKMS driver (the stock Linux driver has multi-ms 
> > random latencies)
> > 
> > On all, use isolcpus (or whatever the newer scheme is called) to isolate 
> the 
> > last CPU, and then pin the Ethernet IRQ to that CPU.
> > 
> > Use the latest kernel (I have a test system that always got random 
> timeouts,
> > say once a day, with 6.x kernels, this was totally fixed with a 7.X kernel
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
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> > > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and
> > > lunatics."
> > > ? George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912
> > > 
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