On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:33, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 07/13/2004 02:29 PM Philippe Gerum wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:37, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I have now commited a first port of RTAI over ADEOS/ppc to the vesuvio
> >> branch. One first observation is, that the latencies and task switch
> >> times are almost doubled on slow PowerPC processors (MPC860 at 50 MHz).
> > 
> >> I will give some more information on this port including performance
> >> figures later on.
> >> 
> > 
> > It would be interesting to know if the IRQ latencies are also observable
> > using the irq_jitter test (or some adaptation of) from the Adeos distro
> > (linux/examples/* IIRC).
> 
> These figures look resonable but I cannot compare them directly with the
> pre-ADEOS case. From my point of view, the bigger task switch times and
> latencies are simply due to additional code to be processed, which shows
> up on slow processors (with little caches, etc.). Are there any figures

I could understand a larger overhead due to processing the pipeline with
two stages encurring a preemption (still, it's only about 250ns on a
Celeron 1Ghz), but I don't get yet why the task switch time is impacted.

> for x86? I will provide some preliminary ones for PPC today or tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Wolfgang.
> 
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