Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:50:23 -0400 | From | Mark Hounschell <> | Subject | Re: RT exec for exercising RT kernel capabilities |
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Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Mark, > > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:12 -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote: >> With the ongoing work being done to rt kernel enhancements by Ingo and friends, >> I would like to offer the use of a user land test (rt-exec). The rt-exec tests >> well the deterministic real-time capabilities of a computer. Maybe it could >> useful in some way to the effort or to anyone interested in making this type of >> determination about their kernel/computer. >> >> A README describing the rt-exec can be found at >> ftp://ftp.compro.net/public/rt-exec/README >> >> It can be downloaded from >> ftp://ftp.compro.net/public/rt-exec/rt-exec-1.0.0.tar.bz2 >> >> Complaints, comments, or suggestions welcome. > > Nice tool. > > Some remarks. You can build high resolution timer support without the > extra lib package from the HRT sourceforge site. You need a recent glibc > and some quirks in the source. See the cyclictest program I'm using. > http://www.tglx.de/projects/misc/cyclictest/cyclictest-v0.8.tar.bz2 >
I didn't realize that. Right you are.
> It would also be cute to add tests for the PI support for > pthread_mutexes. > > tglx
I'm not sure what one needs to do in user land to actually test that but I'll investigate.
Thanks Mark
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