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Perl
98 lines
3.8 KiB
Perl
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@c Timing information for PSIM
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@c
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@c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-1998.
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@c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
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@c All rights reserved.
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@c
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@c $Id$
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@c
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@include ../../common/timemac.texi
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@tex
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\global\advance \smallskipamount by -4pt
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@end tex
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@chapter RTEMS_BSP Timing Data
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@section Introduction
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The timing data for RTEMS on the RTEMS_BSP target
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is provided along with the target
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dependent aspects concerning the gathering of the timing data.
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The hardware platform used to gather the times is described to
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give the reader a better understanding of each directive time
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provided. Also, provided is a description of the interrupt
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latency and the context switch times as they pertain to the
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PowerPC version of RTEMS.
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@section Hardware Platform
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All times reported in this chapter were measured using the PowerPC
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Instruction Simulator (PSIM). PSIM simulates a variety of PowerPC
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6xx models with the PPC603e being used as the basis for the measurements
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reported in this chapter.
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The PowerPC decrementer register was was used to gather
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all timing information. In real hardware implementations
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of the PowerPC architecture, this register would typically
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count something like CPU cycles or be a function of the clock
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speed. However, with PSIM each count of the decrementer register
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represents an instruction. Thus all measurements in this
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chapter are reported as the actual number of instructions
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executed. All sources of hardware interrupts were disabled,
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although traps were enabled and the interrupt level of the
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PowerPC allows all interrupts.
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@section Interrupt Latency
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The maximum period with traps disabled or the
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processor interrupt level set to it's highest value inside RTEMS
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is less than RTEMS_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD
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microseconds including the instructions which
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disable and re-enable interrupts. The time required for the
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PowerPC to vector an interrupt and for the RTEMS entry overhead
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before invoking the user's trap handler are a total of
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RTEMS_INTR_ENTRY_RETURNS_TO_PREEMPTING_TASK
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microseconds. These combine to yield a worst case interrupt
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latency of less than RTEMS_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD +
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RTEMS_INTR_ENTRY_RETURNS_TO_PREEMPTING_TASK microseconds at
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RTEMS_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD_MHZ Mhz.
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[NOTE: The maximum period with interrupts disabled was last
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determined for Release RTEMS_RELEASE_FOR_MAXIMUM_DISABLE_PERIOD.]
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The maximum period with interrupts disabled within
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RTEMS is hand-timed with some assistance from RTEMS_BSP. The maximum
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period with interrupts disabled with RTEMS occurs was not measured
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on this target.
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The interrupt vector and entry overhead time was
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generated on the RTEMS_BSP benchmark platform using the PowerPC's
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decrementer register. This register was programmed to generate
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an interrupt after one countdown.
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@section Context Switch
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The RTEMS processor context switch time is RTEMS_NO_FP_CONTEXTS
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instructions on the RTEMS_BSP benchmark platform when no floating
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point context is saved or restored. Additional execution time
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is required when a TASK_SWITCH user extension is configured.
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The use of the TASK_SWITCH extension is application dependent.
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Thus, its execution time is not considered part of the raw
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context switch time.
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Since RTEMS was designed specifically for embedded
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missile applications which are floating point intensive, the
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executive is optimized to avoid unnecessarily saving and
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restoring the state of the numeric coprocessor. The state of
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the numeric coprocessor is only saved when an FLOATING_POINT
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task is dispatched and that task was not the last task to
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utilize the coprocessor. In a system with only one
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FLOATING_POINT task, the state of the numeric coprocessor will
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never be saved or restored. When the first FLOATING_POINT task
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is dispatched, RTEMS does not need to save the current state of
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the numeric coprocessor.
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The following table summarizes the context switch
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times for the RTEMS_BSP benchmark platform:
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