Lars Segerlund wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I have a question about EMC and the underlying realtime kernel, since
> the Linux RT-Preempt patches are 'almost' included in the mainline
> now, is there any effort to port EMC to this platform ?
>   
Have you checked the interrupt latency performance of the RT-preempt kernel?
The quick web search I did indicated that with some work, some users 
have been
able to get latency down "under one millisecond", which is nowhere near what
we need for even servo control.  With RTAI, latencies of 10 us or better 
seem the norm when
good hardware is selected and the right BIOS functions are turned on/off.
Some of these articles are old, however, and better results may now be 
available.
It would be good to actually run some of the RT-preempt tests on 
representative hardware
before doing anything further.

Jon



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