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SubjectRe: [PATCH] futex: add FUTEX_SET_WAIT operation
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:18 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> Would you be interested in adding it as a 'perf bench futex' testcase?
>> That way kernel developers could monitor futex performance in the future
>> as well.
>>
>> See 'perf bench' in the latest perf events tree:
>>
>> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
>>
>> Do 'cd tools/perf; make -j install' to install perf.
>
> Darren has recently been putting a lot of effort in making a futex test
> suite:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git
>
> Its not yet complete, but hopefully it will soon be :-)
>

Michael, would you be willing to include a version of this test in the
above test suite? If so, then in keeping with the rest of the test
suite, I would recommend splitting into two tests, one of each opcode
being tested, and add argument to define thread count. The run.sh
script would then run each thread count as a separate test run.

--
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team


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