On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:17:40PM +0100, Arni Ingimundarson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:06:16PM +0100, Paolo Mantegazza wrote:
> > Arni Ingimundarson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I was asked to demonstrate RTLinux to research group at the university
> > > (TU-Darmstadt).  They are now using proprietery RT OS.
> > > 
> > > All wenn well and we had usually about 5us irq latency.  The problem
> > > was every now and then the latency got as high as 20-25 micro seconds.
> > > 
> > > That is way to much.
> > > 
> > > I was running this on a Intel Celeron 300A with ISA timercard giving
> > > interrupt and the IRQ-handler sending one pulse to the Parallel-Port.
> > > RedHat 7.2 with RTLinux 3.1 on Kernel 2.4.4 and KDE. (I know ISA isn't
> > > the best for RT but it shouldn't matter with this test).
> > > 
> > > My question is:   Is it known what programs/tasks could be blocking
> > > interrupts?  Wouldn't it be possible to not run those programs to
> > > guaranty shorter responce time ?
> > > 
> > > I would apreciate any info.
> > 
> > The real question is: what do the proprietary OS they use attain on the
> > same hardware for the same test?
> 
> I did not try it myself, but the claim worst case < 10us with avarage
> about 5us.  Someone even claimed he got about 2,5us.


Very hard to believe. Can you test?

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