Re: [rt-tests][PATCH] align thread wakeup times

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 10/04/2013 03:33 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
>> I would rather fix current behaviour instead introducing yet another
>> option. By using -d0 I assume that all threads wakeup at the same time.
> 
> Nop they do not -d0 just says that they all use
> the same period rather than some offset with multiple threads (e.g. -S)
> 
>> According to your patch this does not happen due to the thread creating
>> / starting overhead.
>> Is there is a reason to keep this "faulty" behavior? If not I would vote
>> to make this what you suggest the default.
>>
> 
> its not faulty behavior - its a different case
> in fact we need both.
> 
> same period + "random" start time
> same period + synced start time
> 
> it makes a difference on some boxes that is significant.

So you say with -d0, where d is documented as "distance of thread
intervals in us", I should not expect that all threads share the exact
same wakeup time (because their distance is 0)?

> thx!
> hofrat
> 

Sebastian