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From: bgat@billgatliff•com (Bill Gatliff)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Support Question
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:18:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF56ECE.9030303@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin9qYxhbKe_ZDFvPbteM6Zn1H2M5jY6mAaH_Jxu@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/19/2010 12:06 PM, Amit kumar wrote:
>
>
> Therefore I don;t have any idea from where the delay is being
> introduced. Is it a problem of OS or there is nythng else involved .
> Kindly guide me through this . I need urgent help .... any information
> abt delay is welcome.

The SPI drivers usually have a kernel thread to deal with transmissions 
and chip selects.  Make sure that kernel thread is on the RT scheduler, 
otherwise it gets prioritized along with user applications--- which 
would explain the delay you are seeing.


b.g.

-- 
Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1274199223.1763.0.camel@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain>
2010-05-19 17:06 ` Support Question Amit kumar
2010-05-20 13:11   ` Nicolas Ferre
2010-05-20 17:18   ` Bill Gatliff [this message]

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