Interrupt latency estimation

[alzomor]

Hi

How to calculate the exact interrupt latency for ARM926EJ-s?
I have found Some info in ARM Documentation for FIQ , Vectored IRQ and none Vectored IRQ but I think it's for the worst case Interrupt latency?
My Question is: Is it possible to know the exact interrupt latency?

Salam
Hossam Alzomor
www(.)i-g(.)org

 

[vaddavalliseshu]

LATENCY= intrrupt event occurred time - actual event time

 

[alzomor]

Hi

I was asking about exact value in ARM926EJ-s
I was not asking about the definition, even that your definition is not clear.
a good definition could be ,
time of the execution of 1st instruction in interrupt service routine - the time of the interrupt itself.

thanks any way

Salam
Hossam Alzomor

 

[Enlightenment]

Not an ARM calculation, but an old-school approach that works on any processor: at the beginning of your interrupt function, pulse a output pin high then low.

Hook up a logic analyzer to the interrupt line and the output line you are pulsing and measure it. If you can capture a lot of results and have abilty to dump timings as text to a file, then examine all to calculate the min, max, avg. This will be helpful to determine jitter.

You should be able to look at the interrupt source code, if in C, then subtract the instruction timing from where your instruction pulses the line to the beginning of the interrupt code from the above time measurements to come up with the answer.

People want nice pretty answers from a book...but it is hard to beat real-world measurements.