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Old 08-06-2008, 09:41 AM   #1
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timing issues important for a kernel(RTOS)


hey everyone,

I am right now working on kernel of rtlinux. I made certain changes in scheduling part of the kernel. Now i want to evalute my work. For that i want to know important or standard parameters used to evaluate the performance of kernel (especially related to scheduling part). So can someone suggest me which parameters i should look forward to.

I will be highly obliged

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Old 08-07-2008, 03:00 AM   #2
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(This is not a helpful reply. I am sorry.)

You made changes to the kernel scheduling in RT, and are deciding afterwards how you will evaluate the performance? Surely, that is completely wrong.

Shouldn't you have only been doing this kind of low level hackery with a well-defined objective in mind, and then be testing whether it met the defined objective? (Well, objectives, rather than objective.)

You probably wouldn't be working on RT if interrupt performance was completely unimportant, so you would probably want to have before and after benchmarks on that.

As you've changed the scheduler, you'll probably want something related to responsiveness, but exactly what responsiveness means to you depends on whether you have interaction with humans or other machines.

Other things depend on what your app does. In general, what is it that your app does that is difficult, from a timing/performance p-o-v? Do you have a benchmark related to that/those things?
 
  


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