Re: how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn't work due to /dev/rtc issues

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Fri, 09 May 2003 02:07:30 -0400

Roland Dreier wrote:
> Chris> I want to find an additional programmable interrupt source.
> Chris> It bites that cheap PCs have this, and the powerpc doesn't.

> On something like the Motorola 74xx, you might be able to use the
> something like the performance monitor to generate an exception.

That's the chip. I'll look into that further--thanks for the suggestion.

Chris

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