Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751682AbVIZQwq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:52:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751681AbVIZQwq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:52:46 -0400 Received: from mail-res.bigfish.com ([63.161.60.61]:20813 "EHLO mail30-res-R.bigfish.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbVIZQwp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:52:45 -0400 X-BigFish: V Message-ID: <4338275B.1030500@am.sony.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:52:43 -0700 From: Geoff Levand User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tglx@linutronix.de CC: Darren Hart , george@mvista.com, "Theodore Ts'o" , "'high-res-timers-discourse@lists.sourceforge.net'" , "lkml," , dino@us.ibm.com, Paul McKenney , "Sarma, Dipankar" Subject: Re: HRT on opteron / rt14 on opteron References: <432F21D1.90209@us.ibm.com> <432F5A44.9010208@am.sony.com> <433489F6.9080203@us.ibm.com> <1127684460.15115.116.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <1127684460.15115.116.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1456 Lines: 52 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:04 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > >>I am trying to run all the tests in the above tarball on a 2.6.13 kernel with >>ktimers+tod+hrt + a hrt compatibility patch which uses the normal clocks when a >>_HR clock is requested since ktimers treats them the same. I remember there >>used to be a run_tests script or something when this was a kernel patch, but I > > > do_test > > >>am not seeing that or any kind of documentation on how to interpret the output >>of the tests which output numbers rather than pass/fail. For instance: >> >># ./1-4 >>it value left is 3 999985323 >>What does that even mean? > > > Cryptic POSIX compliance test output. > I beleive a number of the tests came from the Open POSIX Test Suite (http://posixtest.sourceforge.net/). > >># ./timerlimit >>7168: timer id = 7167 >>timer_create: Resource temporarily unavailable >> >>Is that a reasonable number of successfully created clocks? > > > Depends on the number of timers available on your system. But sounds > reasonable. > If I remember correctly, you're limited by the number of signals a process can have, and the kernel default is 1024 per process. -Geoff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/