Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/13/2013 10:28 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > I spent the day playing with this on the Intel Atom D2700MUD. I rebuilt the > system using the rtos-integration-preview3-merged-into-master > branch. I rebuilt it for another reason (stupid graphics fubar) and figured > I would try this branch for t

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Tom Easterday
I spent the day playing with this on the Intel Atom D2700MUD. I rebuilt the system using the rtos-integration-preview3-merged-into-master branch. I rebuilt it for another reason (stupid graphics fubar) and figured I would try this branch for the heck of it. Neither no-halt nor idle=poll had an

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/13/2013 11:52 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > > Am 13.02.2013 um 18:47 schrieb Eric Keller: > >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Michael Haberler >> wrote: >> >>> the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly The hlt instruction works fine, it ju

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread sam sokolik
For this system (amd) the only thing that seems to make a difference is the idle=poll (no-halt seems to have no effect) I go from 200+us latency to 7us top. sam On 2/13/2013 11:29 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > for reference - from > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 13.02.2013 um 18:52 schrieb Michael Haberler: > > well I dont know enough about how the electronics of all this is implemented, > but if any of the power supply (like onboard SMPS regulators) is involved in > the CPU voltage reduction of some of these C* states, I wouldnt be suprised > that

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 13.02.2013 um 18:47 schrieb Eric Keller: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > >> the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly >> > It bugs me that in these days of high performance and energy aware > computers that the hlt command apparently doesn't work properly on a

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Eric Keller
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly > It bugs me that in these days of high performance and energy aware computers that the hlt command apparently doesn't work properly on a lot of processors. This affects realtime users the most

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Haberler
for reference - from http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to use it. This is also useful when