Re: pdflush preemption

2007-08-28 Thread John Sigler
Daniel Walker wrote: John Sigler wrote: Why does pdflush kick in to ruin my party? :-) The expected latency is ~600 µs. http://linux.kernel.free.fr/latency/pdflush.trace Does ide_inb mean I'm reading from the disk? Does your real time application lock its memory, or allow itself to be swappe

Re: pdflush preemption

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:39 +0200, John Sigler wrote: > Why does pdflush kick in to ruin my party? :-) > The expected latency is ~600 µs. > http://linux.kernel.free.fr/latency/pdflush.trace > Does ide_inb mean I'm reading from the disk? Does your real time application lock it's memory, or allow i

pdflush preemption

2007-08-28 Thread John Sigler
Hello, I've been using the latency tracing tool in -rt. Linux version 2.6.22.1-rt9 (gcc version 3.4.4) #1 PREEMPT RT prctl(0, 1); /* start tracing */ TsOut.Write(buf, packet_size); prctl(0, 0); /* stop tracing */ Write() calls the driver through an ioctl, which schedules a DMA to co