Re: [Xenomai-core] rt timer jitter
Krzysztof Błaszkowski wrote: Do you have any idea about reducing rt timer jitter ? I experience annoyingly big jitter in a thread which is supposed to run at 400us (i reckon this is nothing extra demanding from atom @1.6G) thread_task:2651 peak rt jitter -18470[ns], tsc delta 697450 I must say it is 4 - 5 times worse if compared to rtai 3.7 / 2.6.27.19 UP. I use now xenomai 2.5.4 with adeos 2.2-06 patch for same 2.6.27 kernel to make these comparisons more reliable. Can i do something with this ? Ok. I had read that you had 400us jitter, this would have been pathological. But 10us or 20us jitter on an ATOM is not. The jitter on an idle system is not really significant, only the worst case under several hours of heavy load is really significant. -- Gilles. ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
Re: [Xenomai-core] rt timer jitter
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:01 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: Krzysztof Błaszkowski wrote: Can i do something with this ? Do you observe the same latencies with the latency test? this test does not produce reliable results except some hints. e.g. min. latency shifts about 1.5usec when i run on 2nd console dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=16k. as i recall max latency was more than 10 usec. -- Krzysztof Blaszkowski ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
Re: [Xenomai-core] rt timer jitter
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:20 +0200, Krzysztof Błaszkowski wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:06 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:55 +0200, Krzysztof Błaszkowski wrote: Do you have any idea about reducing rt timer jitter ? I experience annoyingly big jitter in a thread which is supposed to run at 400us (i reckon this is nothing extra demanding from atom @1.6G) the thread's loop looks like: { function1() ..2() ..3() ..4() rt_task_wait_period() } (^yet another simplified model^) This is the typical pattern of the latency test. What figures do you get with: # /usr/xenomai/bin/latency -t0 ... # /usr/xenomai/bin/latency -t1 t0: RTS| -1.337| -0.039| 13.285| 0| 0| 00:02:13/00:02:13 Those are common figures for user-space latency on the kind of hw you run this test on. i can't run t1 because of missing seno_timerbench.ko (i have no idea how to find a config option which would build it) Did you consider using the Search feature from xconfig/gconfig/whatever, looking for timerbench? config XENO_DRIVERS_TIMERBENCH depends on XENO_SKIN_RTDM tristate Timer benchmark driver default y help Kernel-based benchmark driver for timer latency evaluation. See testsuite/latency for a possible front-end. If you run your app in kernel space, then -t1 is what you want to run. -- Philippe. ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
Re: [Xenomai-core] rt timer jitter
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:14 +0200, Krzysztof Błaszkowski wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:01 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: Krzysztof Błaszkowski wrote: Can i do something with this ? Do you observe the same latencies with the latency test? this test does not produce reliable results except some hints. e.g. min. latency shifts about 1.5usec when i run on 2nd console dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=16k. and? as i recall max latency was more than 10 usec. which is correct on your platform. -- Philippe. ___ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core