From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kacur Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/4] Add cyclicload calibration & load generation feature Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:39:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <1346320607-6691-1-git-send-email-Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com> <1346320607-6691-4-git-send-email-Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "williams@redhat.com" , Aggrwal Poonam-B10812 , "jkacur@redhat.com" , "frank.rowand@am.sony.com" , "linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org" , Srivastava Rajan-B34330 , "dvhart@linux.intel.com" To: Jain Priyanka-B32167 Return-path: Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:34449 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759088Ab2JSPiV (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:21 -0400 Received: by mail-gg0-f174.google.com with SMTP id k5so92725ggd.19 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:38:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Jain Priyanka-B32167 wrote: > Dear Clark, > > Its along time that since I have send patches for cyclicload. > I can see patch for cyclicload integrated into work branch on rt-test git tree. > Did you have any feedback on its working. > > Also I have made some improvements on it. Should I send the next version of the cyclicload patch or a new patch for the changes based on the 'work' branch code. > > Regards > Priyanka > > ------------->o SNIP Personally I think you should send the next version of the new patch, and not based on Clark's work branch. (a working branch is just that, a working place to store patches, no guarantees) I think I should warn you that we have been discussing how difficult it is to make an artifical load. I worry that your program just adds a thread or threads spinning at another prio level, (which you can do already with cyclictest) but not adding any real load. I wouldn't like for you to do a lot of work only to have it ultimately rejected. Why don't you submit the next version of your work, and then perhaps talk a little more about what you intend to do, and see what other people on the mailing list here think about that. Thanks John Kacur