Il giorno sab 30 mar 2019 alle ore 04:26 Przemek Klosowski <
przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 2:13 PM theman whosoldtheworld <
> bleachk...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > PCW in the forum normally suggest desktop motherboard ... Is it just a
> > matter of Platform Controller Hub that prevented the rt-preemt kernels
> > from having good performances?
> >
> I always thought the realtime latencies are mostly caused by the black
> magic of the SMB---the system management firmware which is allowed to take
> over completely from the main CPU. Somehow this is connected to the video
> hardware: even though video normally does not have its own non-preemptible
> firmware. The way I understand it, the SMB code ends up calling the video
> callbacks which are poorly designed and take excessively long.
>
> Since SMB is a black box subsystem, there's no way to predict its
> latencies. My understanding is that there is only one sure way to find
> out:  run latency tests, like LinuxCNC is doing.
>
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