Re: [Emc-users] Prempt RT on Linux Mint

[andy p. <bod...@gm...>]

On 2 February 2016 at 22:45, Peter C. Wallace <pc...@me...> wrote:
> This might be true with parallel port software stepping systems that require a
> high speed base thread for pulse generation and perhaps encoder counting,
> but is not the case at all for servo thread only systems,


I don't think that it is necessarily the case even with parport-only
systems. There seems to be an obsession with getting super-low latency
and a concomitant belief that unless you can get into single-digit
microseconds you might as well give up.
In practice few stepper systems have hardware that can follow even a
50uS base-thread. I spend a lot of time on the forum saying "Stop
fiddling, it's fine as it is, get on with something productive"

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