You want the “dboard” files in the UHD source. They subscribe to internal 
tuning events. Use whichever dboard files correspond to your hardware. 

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> On Jun 11, 2020, at 4:32 PM, Marcus D Leech <patchvonbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So one of the things That can happen is that your command packets will have 
> to wait For a much-larger data packet. The link is shared. 
> 
> I’d timed commands are scheduled “tight” this can happen. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 11, 2020, at 3:34 PM, Lukas Haase <lukasha...@gmx.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Marcus,
>> 
>>>>> On 06/10/2020 09:00 PM, Lukas Haase via USRP-users wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> For example, what is the fastest rate I can issue timed commands
>>>>> (ignoring settling times etc) on a X310 over 10Gbe?
>>> This is actually an ambiguous question.  Do you mean "what is the
>>> smallest scheduling interval for the commands that will be executed
>>> in the future?" or "how fast can I issue commands that will
>>> ultimately be scheduled at a later time?"  In the former, that
>>> depends on the exact nature of the commands, since they end up
>>> actually being executed by, for example, an SPI or I2C endpoint,
>>> which operates very very much slower than a 10GiGe interface.  In the
>>> latter, my guess is that the FPGA can swallow commands and place them
>>> on the queue pretty-much as fast as you can issue them over 10GiG.
>>> How fast you can do that depends very much on your host-side
>>> environment, network stack, kernel network drivers, kernel latencies,
>>> etc.
>> 
>> My questions concerns the latter (for now).
>> Since the FPGA has a (small) finite FIFO for these timed commands I 
>> assume*d* there would be a limit on how fast I can send these commands.
>> 
>> Based on Jonathon's answer however, it seems that UHD on the host ensures 
>> that it only sends a maximum number of timed commands such that the command 
>> queues do not overflow.
>> 
>> But it seems to bring another issue: If UHD holds back these messages too 
>> long they will eventually arrive late and (silently) execute non-timed 
>> (thereby destroying any coherence the application might require).
>> 
>> I am trying to debug WHY this can happen, why it does NOT happen to the data 
>> stream (all data arrives on time!) and what I can do that I ensure my timed 
>> commands will execute *on time*.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Lukas
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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