Am 17.02.2014 15:24, schrieb Philippe Gerum:
> On 02/17/2014 01:57 PM, Christian Göbeler wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to get xenomai working on my laptop:
>> - Intel i7-2630QM
>> - HM67 Chipset
>> - Ubuntu 12.04
>> - NVidia GF 540 and Intel onboard graphics chip
>> - kernel 3.8.13 x86_64
>> - xenomai 2.6.3
>>
>> but when I run the latency tests I keep getting high worst case
>> latencies.
>>
>> When generating load by manually calling dd or using the "dohell" script
>> I get
>> latencies >290. When I start X while running the latency test I get
>> latencies >700
>> .. and finally when I run glxgears on the nvidia card I get latencies of
>> up to >9000.
>> Eventhough these do only occur right when I start glxgears.
>>
>> I do not intend to measure latencies while doing 3d animation but I
>> think the
>> latencies shown indicate some kind of configuration mistake which I'd
>> like to
>> avoid.
>>
>
> If you plan to use the i915 drm driver with an Intel integrated
> graphic chip, make sure to run ipipe-core-3.8.13-x86-4, anything
> earlier (i.e. 3.8.13-x86-3 and below) shows high latencies.
> http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v3.x/x86/ipipe-core-3.8.13-x86-4.patch
>
>
Thanks for the hint. ipipe-core-3.8.13-x86-4 patch is included in the
xenomai 2.6.3 download and was successfully applied to my kernel so that
should not be the reason for those latency peaks.

Increasing CONFIG_XENO_OPT_SYS_HEAPSZ solved the problem of not being
able to run the switchtest.

But I still have those latency peaks... when I do nothing and simply run
the tests including the dohell script or compiling some code parallel to
the test I get a 200-300 us latency peak about once a minute... but
whenever I activate the discrete graphics card, connect a mouse, insert
a cd, disconnect the power supply or a fan starts to work I instantly
get a latency peak from 300us to 700us ...

Is there anything I can do to prevent this? (besides not touching anything)
How can I find what's causing this?

Christian


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