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@chapter CVME961 Timing Data

NOTE: The CVME961 board used by the RTEMS Project to

obtain i960CA times is currently broken.  The information in

this chapter was obtained using Release 3.2.1.

@section Introduction

The timing data for the i960CA version of RTEMS is

provided along with the target dependent aspects concerning the

gathering of the timing data.  The hardware platform used to

gather the times is described to give the reader a better

understanding of each directive time provided.  Also, provided

is a description of the  interrupt latency and the context

switch times as they pertain to the i960CA version of RTEMS.

@section Hardware Platform

All times reported except for the maximum period

interrupts are disabled by RTEMS were measured using a Cyclone

Microsystems CVME961 board.  The CVME961 is a 33 Mhz board with

dynamic RAM which has two wait state dynamic memory (four CPU

cycles) for read accesses and one wait state (two CPU cycles)

for write accesses.  The Z8536 on a SQUALL SQSIO4 mezzanine

board was used to measure elapsed time with one-half microsecond

resolution.  All sources of hardware interrupts are disabled,

although the interrupt level of the i960CA allows all interrupts.

The maximum  interrupt disable period was measured by

summing the number of CPU cycles required by each assembly

language instruction executed while interrupts were disabled.

Zero wait state memory was assumed.  The total CPU cycles

executed with interrupts disabled, including the instructions to

disable and enable interrupts, was divided by 33 to simulate a

i960CA executing at 33 Mhz with zero wait states.

@section Interrupt Latency

The maximum period with interrupts disabled within

RTEMS is less than

RTEMS_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD microseconds including the instructions

which disable and re-enable interrupts.  The time required for

the i960CA to generate an interrupt using the sysctl

instruction, vectoring to an interrupt handler, and for the

RTEMS entry overhead before invoking the user's interrupt

handler are a total of RTEMS_INTR_ENTRY_RETURNS_TO_PREEMPTING_TASK

microseconds.  These combine to yield

a worst case interrupt latency of less than

RTEMS_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD + RTEMS_INTR_ENTRY_RETURNS_TO_PREEMPTING_TASK

microseconds.  [NOTE: The maximum period with interrupts

disabled within RTEMS was last calculated for Release

RTEMS_RELEASE_FOR_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD.]

It should be noted again that the maximum period with

interrupts disabled within RTEMS is hand-timed.  The interrupt

vector and entry overhead time was generated on the Cyclone

CVME961 benchmark platform using the sysctl instruction as the

interrupt source.

@section Context Switch

The RTEMS processor context switch time is RTEMS_NO_FP_CONTEXTS

microseconds on the Cyclone CVME961 benchmark platform.  This

time represents the raw context switch time with no user

extensions configured.  Additional execution time is required

when a TSWITCH user extension is configured.  The use of the

TSWITCH extension is application dependent.  Thus, its execution

time is not considered part of the base context switch time.

The CVME961 has no hardware floating point capability

and floating point tasks are not supported.

The following table summarizes the context switch

times for the CVME961 benchmark platform: