Evaluating SMI (System Management Interrupt) latency on Linux-CentOS/Intel machine
I am interested in evaluating the behavior (latency, frequency) of SMI handling on Linux machine running CentOS and used for a (very) soft real time application. What tools are recommended (hwlatdetect for CentOS?), and what is the best course of action to go about this? If no good tools are available for CentOS, am I correct to assume that installing a different OS on the same machine should yield the same results since the underlying hardware/bios are the same? Is there any source for ballpark figures on these parameters. The machines are X86_64 architecture, running CentOS 6.4 (kernel 2.6