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From: Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [rt-tests] change to cyclictest behavior
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:23:52 +0100
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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.