Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 07:24:01PM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote: >> Workload Generator Details >> -------------------------- >> The Workload Generator is based on rt-app. Shared resources, waits, signals >> and locking order can be specified for each thread in a JSON description to >> construct complex interdependencies. This allows simulation of interesting >> use-cases. The repository contains examples of a mp3 and web-browsing >> workload. >> >> The method to construct the JSON description is quite manual currently. We >> capture the trace of a workload of interest (say, on Android) and analyse >> it in kernelshark. We then construct the JSON description by hand until its >> resultant trace looks similar to the trace from the real workload. >> >> The immediate goal is to expand the library to cover the common mobile >> workloads. We’re also working with the rt-app maintainer to get our changes >> merged. > > With the end goal of having a program convert a trace into a JSON > description I take it?
Either that or re-evaluate if perf record and playback can actually do away with the need to do this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
