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From: Costa Shulyupin <[email protected]>
To: linux-rt-users <[email protected]>, John Kacur
<[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>, Tomas Glozar
<[email protected]>, Crystal Wood <[email protected]>, Costa Shulyupin
<[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH v1] rt-tests: cyclictest: Add MTBF calculation for
latency spikes
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:58:10 +0300
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Cyclictest reports the number of latency spikes but provides no information
about their frequency distribution over time. This makes it difficult to
compare results - a test with 10 spikes over 1 hour is very different
from 10
spikes over 24 hours, but both show 'spikes = 10'.
Add Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) calculation to quantify spike
frequency.
By definition MTBF = total operating time / number of failures.
In a practical environment where the number of failures is not very
high, this
formula is biased. For example, imagine stable periodic failures. The total
operating time will include time before the first failure and after the last
failure. These intervals are determined by when the test starts and
stops, not
by the system’s failure behavior, which adds measurement bias. The resulting
MTBF will vary between runs even for stable periodic failures.
To reduce this bias, calculate MTBF using only the time between the
first and
last failure, divided by the number of intervals (failures minus one):
MTBF = (timestamp of last failure - timestamp of first failure)
/ (number of failures - 1)
In Cyclictest, the failures are called spikes.
This metric enables meaningful comparison of real-time performance
consistency
across different test runs, hardware configurations, and kernel versions. It
can be considered a KPI for real-time stability, relevant for
certification and
SLA evaluation.
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <[email protected]>
---
src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c
index b4bce8915b43..8ffd05a22b44 100644
--- a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c
+++ b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ struct thread_trigger *head = NULL;
struct thread_trigger *tail = NULL;
struct thread_trigger *current = NULL;
static int spikes; /* count of the number of spikes */
+static int64_t first_spike_ts;
+static int64_t last_spike_ts;
static int trigger_init();
static void trigger_print();
@@ -1753,8 +1755,13 @@ static void trigger_print()
fprintf(stdout, fmt, trig->tnum, trig->diff, trig->ts);
trig = trig->next;
}
- fprintf(stdout, fmt, trig->tnum, trig->diff, trig->ts);
- printf("spikes = %d\n\n", spikes);
+ fprintf(stdout, fmt, trig->tnum, trig->diff, trig->ts);
+ printf("spikes = %d\n", spikes);
+ if (spikes > 1) {
+ double mtbf_sec = (last_spike_ts - first_spike_ts) / (spikes - 1) / 1e6;
+ printf("MTBF = %.3f\n", mtbf_sec);
+ }
+ printf("\n");
}
static void trigger_update(struct thread_param *par, int diff, int64_t ts)
@@ -1767,6 +1774,9 @@ static void trigger_update(struct thread_param
*par, int diff, int64_t ts)
current = current->next;
}
spikes++;
+ if (!first_spike_ts)
+ first_spike_ts = ts;
+ last_spike_ts = ts;
pthread_mutex_unlock(&trigger_lock);
}
--
2.51.0
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