Michel Macena Oliveira wrote: > Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > [ again, no top-posting please... ] ... > > > > > > Well, if you do it for the benchmark, but not for production, then of > > course, the benchmark is meaningless. > > Then in case of a RT application for production I should "live" with > this problem? > Well, you should have an over-all realtime strategy for your product. This includes thermal requirements for both CPU (communicated with the provider, due to the possible removal of power-saving support in SW) and system enclosure... then you know if you can "live with it" or not. > > If you're interested, I presented a small talk about the topic here: > > https://linutronix.de/PDF/Realtime_and_graphics-acontradiction2021.pdf > > Thanks, really helpful, but if I understand, in your application > you've used Intel CAT to mitigate the latency and plan to use Intel > MBA as well. Is that true? Sorry for being picky, but this was part of another e-mail sub-thread. You should've kept it there... Anyway, the answer to your question is yes. You need to talk to Intel for MBA support on non-Xeon CPUs though, as the instructions are only available under an NDA. I cannot comment further on this. Good luck, -- Ahmed S. Darwish Linutronix GmbH