RE: how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn

[Giuliano Pochini]

On 08-May-2003 Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to test the scheduler latency on a powerpc platform.  It appears that 
> a realfeel type of program won't work since you can't program /dev/rtc to 
> generated interrupts on powerpc.  Is there anything similar which could be done?

If you are using a legacy Mac, you can use the serial port. If you have
a sound chip, you can use that one. All archs have a programmable timer, even
if /dev/rtc doesn't suport it. Try to ask in the linuxppc-dev mailing list.

Bye.