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 _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
