We haven't had a release in a while as people were content to work from
git. However, in order to make it easier to use, test, and put into
distributions, now would be a good time for an official release.
There have been a number of interesting changes since 1.3
I'm happy with the way the removal of the --numa from cyclictest is
working now. What this means is that numa is dectected automatically, so
you don't have to specify it. You can still force smp with --smp though.
In addition, cpu affinity should work correctly now. Historically there
were combinations of options in which you couldn't specify cpu affinity,
but these restrictions have been removed.
We have added a number of new programs to the rt-tests suite
- queuelat
- cyclicdeadline
- deadline_test
- ssdd
queuelat simulates a network queue checking for latency violations in
packet processing.
deadline_test is used to test the deadline scheduler (SCHED_DEADLINE)
cyclicdeadline also tests the deadline scheduler in a cyclictest manner
ssdd has a tracer do a bunch of PTRACE_SINGLESTEPs
There is a new feature that adds a duration option to many of the tests
as a more natural way that iterations to determine how long to test for.
There have also been a number of fix and updates, such as an update.
hwlatdetect no-longer requires a kernel module, instead it uses ftrace.
It also works with python3
CPU counters with SMI counter support has been updated, although I think
we're due for another. Hint to Daniel :)
So the latest stable / unstable branch (yes the naming is confusing, and
this will be changed in the future too) is
unstable/devel/latest
If you just to want to use or test the latest then use that
Development for the above is happening here
unstable/devel/latest-devel
This already has some new patches for the deadline tests
This is what developers should development against until
I merge it back into the latest.
Bug reports and patches, are all welcome.
I'd like to step up development, especially bug fixes, and
harden this up. Everything is working reasonably well, but
I'm sure with everyone working the code we can flush out some bugs
and aim for a new stable branch.
So, have fun, and send in your patches and reports!
John Kacur
Clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git
branches
Branches
unstable/devel/latest (rt-tests: Version 1.4)
unstable/devel/latest-devel (for latest development of Version 1.4)
tarballs are available here
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/
Hi!
On 2019-06-20 15:26:30 (+0200), John Kacur wrote:
> We haven't had a release in a while as people were content to work
> from git. However, in order to make it easier to use, test, and put
> into distributions, now would be a good time for an official release.
Good news! :)
It seems the tag is not available yet (according to `git tag -l`).
Could you add it? I would like to package it.
Thanks a lot!
Best,
David
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https://sleepmap.de
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, David Runge wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 2019-06-20 15:26:30 (+0200), John Kacur wrote:
> > We haven't had a release in a while as people were content to work
> > from git. However, in order to make it easier to use, test, and put
> > into distributions, now would be a good time for an official release.
> Good news! :)
>
> It seems the tag is not available yet (according to `git tag -l`).
> Could you add it? I would like to package it.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Best,
> David
>
> --
> https://sleepmap.de
>
I just pushed the tags, let me know if you can see them now.
thanks
John
On 2019-06-21 14:08:01 (+0200), John Kacur wrote:
> I just pushed the tags, let me know if you can see them now.
Whoops, forgot to answer!
Yes, already pushed the new package. Thank you! :)
Best,
David
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https://sleepmap.de