>tests be passed. This is beyond me to write what I am about to suggest >(I'm not a kernel hacker, I'm partial to C++), but could probably be >done, in a way similar to regression tests: Create a module that is >capable of characterizing latency, and breaking it down in a way that is >useful for kernel maintainers.
You can't test it from entirely within the kernel. You need user space tasks to generate various kinds of loads. Benno's latencytest does just this. It summarizes its results, and draws a graph. --p
