Karl Reichert wrote:
>>> But how is this jittering handled than? To my mind, if the master
>> jitters, i.e. putting his data later on the wire than planned, than all 
>> following
>> also have to put their data later on the wire, otherwise we get a
>> collision. Or is therefore the TDMA_OFFSET (from rtnet.conf) defined, which 
>> would
>> leave enough space that jitter doesn't causes any damage?
>>
>> Precisely the latter.
>>
>> The point is that it wouldn't make much sense to take care of delayed
>> master packets, you would have to do the same for slave packets. And
>> that would mean to evaluate every frame on the wire in order to detect
>> jitters of the preceding slot. Not efficient.
>>
>> Jan
>>
> Okay, then I know now what all this was about. I had all the time the idea 
> that formula 2 or 3 would calculate in some way the jitter of the master to 
> start the next slots later. Cause this is how I understood the paper. But now 
> I'm smarter ;)

Well, if that paper weren't published already, I would likely rethink
that section now, maybe trying to make it more explicit. :)

> 
> Thanks a lot Jan!
> Karl

You are welcome!

Jan


PS: Always take care of CCs on reply... :)

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