I'll give it a try a little later today and post my results then.

Thanks for the advice.

Steven

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:53 PM
> To: Steven Seeger
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] irq0
> 
> Steven Seeger wrote:
> > All right. I'll re-use Philippe's patch that disables TSC on geode
and
> > compile the libs for use without TSC. However, this will not help my
> > overhead problems, correct? Won't it make them worse?
> 
> That depends. If your timer IRQ goes off way more often than it
should,
> you burn much more power than you gain via the TSC short-cut. Plus, a
> broken TSC can have much more evil side effects on your timing.
> 
> >
> > If xenomai is using tsc, then that's a good thing. The timing is all
> > correct it seems, and the jitter is low.
> 
> If the TSC is correct, yes. But we cannot tell if it's correct. Only
you
> can try to systematically analyse all the effects you observed, apply
> the tests we suggested, collect more data about what is going on. We
can
> only help with a better picture of your system.
> 
> Jan


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