Hi Schooner

TQVM.  With the "latency-test 50us 1m" the result show much accurate 
results also with glxgear.

Regards,
KL Chin


On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:37:17 UTC+8, Schooner wrote:
>
> If you run a dummy base thread, but don't actually connect anything to it, 
> it can improve latency with rt-preempt on multi-core processors.
>
> I suspect it just prevents cache hopping, by keeping all the code in one 
> cache whilst the other processor deals with the base thread.
>
> Experiment using 'latency-test 50us 1ms' as opposed to just 'latency-test' 
> which will start just a 1ms servo thread by default.
>
> Linuxcnc is still oriented towards software step generation, so always 
> runs a base thread on a latency test unless specifically told otherwise.
>
>
> On 29/08/18 09:18, KL Chin wrote:
>
> Hi Tim, 
>
> TQVM.. With latency-histogram —nobase, the latency look good under 
> LinuxCNC. 
>
> Regards,
> KL Chin
>
> On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 01:02:30 UTC+8, Timothy March wrote: 
>>
>> KL Chin I do believe the difference between latency test are LinuxCnc has 
>> both Base thread and Servo thread running. Machinekit just has Servo 
>> thread. With LinuxCnc you might want to try command line: 
>>
>> latency-histogram —nobase 
>>
>> Lantecy test then may be comparable 
>>
>> Tim
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