Re: [tip:tracing/core] ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19

Steven Rostedt
2009-11-24T15:00:56Z

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > This module is not made to be run all the time. I know you do it for
> > testing. But running it at lowest priority kills the reason this
> > module was made in the first place!
>
> Well, it also found quite a few bugs in the ring-buffer code, beyond
> benchmarking so i'd like to use it even without looking at the numbers.

OK, then lets make a module option (and command line) that will allow
the setting of the priority of the threads. Either nice or even fifo
(use at your own risk ;-)

I can write something up for that.

-- Steve