During today’s daily meeting, people reported that the ITF lock durations are quite small and Paolo explained that can be due to the troubles of ISC data delivered in late .
Some investigations were made comparing the following channels
- ISC_Tpro_elasped_time giving the time used at each cycle to read the data, perform the calculation and build the packets sent on the Tolm network.
- Daq_ISCToISYS_Tolm_Send_Start giving the transmission time of this packet . This packect is the first packet sent after the ones related to the suspension (NE,WE,BS.PR.SR.NI.WI)
This plot compare the trend of these channels for the 2024-04-01 and the 2025-03-28
- the ISC_Tpro has increased by 1us while the Daq_ISCToISYS_Tolm_Send_Start has increased by 2us
- These increases are not understood
Today to ensure the correct running conditions, for the ACL taks running on the ISC_rtpc, the minimal elapsed time of the LSC_Acl task is set to 24 us, but all its operations needs only 16 us to be executed.
As a trick, the LSC_Acl server minimal elapsed time has been reduced by 1us , 23us instead of 24us . This operation has been done at the 2025-03-28-15h14m49-UTC .
This plot shows the effect of this reduction on the same channels as before:
- the ISC_Tpro_elasped_time has recovered its previous values
- but the Daq_ISCToISYS_Tolm_Send_Start ones have been reduced by 1us only