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>From: [email protected] 
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>Behalf Of Bob Liu
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:57 PM
>To: Mike Frysinger
>Cc: [email protected]; 
>[email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-commits] [9153] trunk/drivers/char: 
>[#6210]bfin_latencytest: add a simple driver for preempt latency test
>
>On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mike Frysinger 
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:26,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Revision 9153 Author lliubbo Date 2010-09-20 03:26:56 -0400 
>(Mon, 20 
>>> Sep
>>> 2010)
>>>
>>> Log Message
>>>
>>> [#6210]bfin_latencytest: add a simple driver for preempt 
>latency test
>>>
>>> bsong have added preempt to our kernel in commit 9079, add a simple 
>>> driver in order to test it.
>>>
>>> This driver use TIMER2 to generate interrupt every 
>seconds,the timer 
>>> isr handle will record the time and send SIGIO to userapp 
>>> preempt_test which will read the recorded time when scheduled and 
>>> compare with the actual time to calculate the latency.
>>
>> we already have uclinux-dist/user/blkfin-test/latency-test/
>
>I see.
>but the latency-test is test the time when interrupt happenned 
>to interrupt handler executed.
>preempt-test is test the time when a process waked up to the 
>process actually executed.
>There are different.
>And preempt-test must need kernel's support.
>

Yes, this preemptive latency test is different from interrupt latency test. 
But, it is not necessary to keep it in kernel tree. Bob will move the driver to 
user/blk-drv/.


Sonic


>>
>> since this really doesnt have a chance of being merged upstream, you 
>> should merge your driver with the existing uclinux-dist one 
>and remove 
>> it from the linux-kernel.
>
>It hard to find a driver to merge, the best one is bfin_simple_timer.
>but it still needs lots of marco define to change 
>bfin_simple_timer's original behavior.
>
>Thanks
>--
>Regards,
>--Bob
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