From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43B970BA.3080707@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:28:10 +0100 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] in-kernel timer benchmark -v3 References: <43B92741.8030609@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <43B92741.8030609@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: xenomai-core Jan Kiszka wrote: > Happy New Year everyone! > > Hope you all survived the turn of the year without complications. ;) > Nearly buried alive in patches, but this is hardly a complication. > I would like to start with a new patch round. The first one is a revised > and extended version of the earlier posted in-kernel timer benchmark > based on a RTDM device. Changes since the first version: > > * revised command line argument to set the test mode > * display test mode during startup > * display hint on missing benchmark device > * support of trace freeze on latency above specified threshold > * extended benchmark device to provide ipipe-tracing functions to > userspace > * further minor fixes > Ok, merged. > I think the patch should be ready to merge now. This would also be > helpful to provide a base on which Gilles can build his timer-scaling > tests. BTW, we still need some RTDM abstraction for timers, but this is > a different topic that will be addressed later. > Btw, since -rc1 is out, I've deprecated the Adeos oldgen support for all archs (ia64 is now I-pipe based too), so that I can merge Dmitry's work later on, exclusively into the newgen codebase. So if anyone still keeps any venerable pre-Ipipe patch in some hideout of his hdd, just let it go now; I know it's heartbreaking, but Xenomai is thankless. -- Philippe.