Re: rt20 scheduling latency testcase and failure data

[Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 01:58, Sébastien Dugué wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> wrote:
> > >   Darren,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 18:30 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > > > Following Ingo's example I have included the modified test case
> > > > (please see the original mail for librt.h) that starts the trace
> > > > before each sleep and disables it after we wake up.  If we have
> > > > missed a period, we print the trace.
> > >
> > >   Your test program fails (at least on my box) as the overhead of
> > > starting and stopping the trace in the 5 ms period is just too high.
> > >
> > >   By moving the latency_trace_start() at the start of the thread
> > > function and latency_trace_stop() at the end, everything runs fine. I
> > > did not have any period missed even under heavy load.
> >
> > could you send us the fixed testcase?
>
>   No problem, see attachment.

I found several similar problems in my original test case, please see my 
earlier mail from today where I included a completely rewritten test case 
with buffered output and new periodic logic.

The case attached here seems to try to print the trace without first stopping 
it.  I don't think that will result in the desired output.  My new test case 
addresses that issue as well.

I'd appreciate any feedback, thanks.

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Darren Hart
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