Hello,

Please find below a patch to enable the use of the TimerFD API
to the cyclictest program.

It add the -F option for this, and can be used on either MONOTONIC and REALTIME
clock, in absolute or relative time.

It has been tested on CentOS4 with a custom , 2.6.19-rt15 kernel and on a
Debian Lenny with a -wireless-testing kernel (non-preempt-rt), so far.
(The latest shown a strange behavior : in MONOTONIC / RELATIVE clocking,
sometimes it happen that the minimum delay become negative. In my opinion, it
would mean that the read() syscall returned *before* the required expiration
delay - but it might just be a bug in my code. It does not appear on the
preempt-rt kernel)

Please let me know if you see any obvious mistake. You may include this patch
in the repository at will.

Bye,

obconseil
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