Re: Calculate average latencies on the fly

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----- Original Message -----
> John,
> 
> Latency of 100,000 seems to me to be a bug when doing floating point long
> division, which potentially accumulates small errors.
> 
> Is the issue in the cyclictest calculation or in the kernel?  Or, the FPU?
> 
> If in the kernel, where do we need to trace to check for increased latency
> when doing floating point long division?
> 
> Piotr, needs to trace where the latency is occurring and fix.  Any
> recommendations on a possible fix at this stage?
> 
> Thx, Tracy
> 

Sure, you make some good points, it could be a cyclictest bug, it could be in the kernel, 
he also said he was doing this in a virtualized system, it could be somewhere in that stack.
The first step of course is to see if you can come up with a way to reliably reproduce it.

Thanks

John
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