From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Sommerseth Subject: Re: RFC: patch to trigger thread stats output from cyclictest with SIGHUP Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:54:05 +0100 Message-ID: <513E0C2D.1050401@redhat.com> References: <20130311111607.587cda32@riff.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paul Gortmaker , John Kacur , Steven Rostedt , RT To: Clark Williams Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12596 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753288Ab3CKQyA (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:54:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/13 17:25, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Clark Williams > wrote: >> John, >> >> Steven suggested a feature for cyclictest that I'd actually been >> whining about (internally anyway). During long rteval runs >> there's really no feedback available if you want to know how the >> run is progressing. Steven suggested sending SIGHUP and dumping >> the current state. Below is a patch that seems to work for >> cyclictest; just wanted to get some feedback on whether this >> would be acceptable behaviour. > > Is USR1 already in use for something? That would be consistent > with how things like dd use USR1 signal - to report interim stats. > > P. +1 ... I was just about to say exactly the same. - -- kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlE+DCsACgkQIIWEatLf4Hc4lACdHs1Cuv4u1tJxkoDOfmKXSCiL s/gAn1XHwrcn2jiNF2Q+0EC22aj+j1Ah =nME1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----