Re: how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn't work due to /dev/rtc issues

Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-09T00:39:50Z

On Thu, 8 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 06:12:12PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to test the scheduler latency on a powerpc platform. It appears
> >>> that a realfeel type of program won't work since you can't program /dev/rtc
> >>> to generated interrupts on powerpc. Is there anything similar which could
> >>> be done?
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > > Why would you want to use an interrupt? Just count jiffies in sched.c
>
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:38:23PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > I don't know what he does mean for scheduler latency, but if it is the ctx
> > switch one something like get_cycles() will be better instead of jiffies.
>
> True, if you're looking for performance tweaks and not pathologies (which
> I was) you'll need something that accurate.
>
>
> -- wli
Does it have a printer port like the Intel machines?
If so, set it up to generate interrupts on the 'event' pin
(paper-out, etc.) and have the ISR parrot the status bits
out the printer-port bits.

Start it up and put function generator on the event bit.
measure the delay beteen that bin and the data data bit(s)
with a 'scope. This tells you the whole story, the total
time necessary for an ISR to actually do something.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.