Re: [RFC] [rt-tests] change to cyclictest behavior

[Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1179 bytes --]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:23:52 +0100
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org> wrote:

> Clark,
> 
> >> -S      --smp              Standard SMP testing (equals -a -t -n -d0),
> >>                            same priority on all threads.
> After having done some tests with a quickly hacked cyclictest version, I
> have found an issue with including -d0. Apparently, small numbers make
> life especially difficult for the scheduler; this is why we often used
> -d1. Specifying -d0 seems a special case where all threads are in sync.
> Maybe, we may miss some important latency constellations, if we do not
> let the tasks slightly interfere. In any case, I would like to be able
> to specify a distance _in addition_ to -S. This would create a scenario
> where
> 
>   cyclictest -d1 -S
> 
> results in a distance of 0, and
> 
>   cyclictest -S -d1
> 
> results in a distance of 1. Would this be acceptable?
> 
> 	Carsten.

I don't have a problem not having -d in the -S option. I was looking at
the possibility of synchronous sampling as well so it's probably a good
idea to keep it separate. 

The main things we want are implied -t, -a and -n.

Clark

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]