Category 3: Filesystem Impact on Latencies

This report compares latency results between Default FS and Base FS under otherwise identical conditions. Eight same-column, same-condition pairs are available. Two pairs are excluded as log files are not yet available (260527_1 and 260527_2).

Summary

There is no consistent trend for latencies on the default filesystem compared to the smaller base filesystem.

Outlier — 260525_3 (Base FS; isolate CPUs; DDR mods; OoB OPTEE; Customer test & -i200 -M): This file shows anomalously high max latency relative to its Default FS counterpart (Pair 6) and was previously flagged in the Category 1 analysis. Set aside for further investigation.
Hardware variability caveat: Tests were run across two boards. All observed differences may include a board-to-board variability component. This caveat applies to all comparisons in this report.

Individual Pair Results

SDK Test Pairs

Pair 1: 260518_1 (Default FS) vs 260522_2 (Base FS)

Column: SDK test  |  Shared conditions: OoB OPTEE

260518_1
260522_2

Pair 2: 260519_1 (Default FS) vs 260522_4 (Base FS)

Column: SDK test  |  Shared conditions: OP-TEE PRNG

260519_1
260522_4

Pair 3: 260526_4 (Default FS) vs 260524_1 (Base FS)

Column: SDK test  |  Shared conditions: DDR mods; OoB OPTEE

260526_4
260524_1

Pair 4: 260526_2 (Default FS) vs 260524_3 (Base FS)

Column: SDK test  |  Shared conditions: isolate CPUs; DDR mods; OoB OPTEE

260526_2
260524_3

Customer Test Pairs

Pair 5: 260525_2 (Default FS) vs 260525_1 (Base FS)

Column: Customer test  |  Shared conditions: isolate CPUs; DDR mods; OoB OPTEE

260525_2
260525_1

Pair 7: 260523_2 (Default FS) vs 260526_1 (Base FS)

Column: Customer test  |  Shared conditions: isolate CPUs; DDR mods; OP-TEE PRNG

260523_2
260526_1

Customer Test & -i200 -M Pairs

Pair 6: 260525_4 (Default FS) vs 260525_3 (Base FS)

Column: Customer test & -i200 -M  |  Shared conditions: isolate CPUs; DDR mods; OoB OPTEE

260525_4
260525_3

Pair 8: 260523_1 (Default FS) vs 260526_3 (Base FS)

Column: Customer test & -i200 -M  |  Shared conditions: isolate CPUs; DDR mods; OP-TEE PRNG

260523_1
260526_3