Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Jan Kiszka
Philippe Gerum wrote: > ... > Ok, I'm not going to argue about cleanliness or brokenness about this... > issue, because it's first and foremost a matter of taste. The main > point, I think, is this one: is the clock device something which may be > changed on-the-fly during real-time operations, in

Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Philippe Gerum
Jan Kiszka wrote: >> sysinfo.tmfreq was meant to be such value. > > Well, then it is totally mis-initialised on x86 so far, same on powerpc. > In fact, there it is the _clock_ frequency, not the timer frequency. So > what is meant by this? One comment actually call it "Timebase frequency" > (power

Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Jan Kiszka
Philippe Gerum wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Philippe Gerum wrote: >>> Jan Kiszka wrote: Jan Kiszka wrote: > ... > Xenomai is loaded at this time but not yet used. Linux runs in tickless > highres mode and obviously had programmed the host timer to fire here. > But instead of o

Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Philippe Gerum
Jan Kiszka wrote: > Philippe Gerum wrote: >> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> Jan Kiszka wrote: ... Xenomai is loaded at this time but not yet used. Linux runs in tickless highres mode and obviously had programmed the host timer to fire here. But instead of one timer IRQ (233) + its handli

Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Jan Kiszka
Philippe Gerum wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> ... >>> Xenomai is loaded at this time but not yet used. Linux runs in tickless >>> highres mode and obviously had programmed the host timer to fire here. >>> But instead of one timer IRQ (233) + its handling, we see an additional >

Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Philippe Gerum
Jan Kiszka wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> ... >> Xenomai is loaded at this time but not yet used. Linux runs in tickless >> highres mode and obviously had programmed the host timer to fire here. >> But instead of one timer IRQ (233) + its handling, we see an additional >> early shot (about 3 µs too

Re: [Xenomai-core] Testing LTTng: first insights

2007-11-08 Thread Jan Kiszka
Jan Kiszka wrote: > ... > Xenomai is loaded at this time but not yet used. Linux runs in tickless > highres mode and obviously had programmed the host timer to fire here. > But instead of one timer IRQ (233) + its handling, we see an additional > early shot (about 3 µs too early here - the longer t