Re: [LTP] [RFC] [2.6.29 Testing] IDLE CPU ACCOUNTING Testing

[Martin S. <sch...@de...>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:54:27 +0530
Subrata Modak <su...@li...> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> Your enhancement(s) to the IDLE CPU ACCOUNTING feature has been merged
> to Linux 2.6.29 stable tree. The following git merges give that info:
> 
> 1) Idle cputime accounting:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=79741dd35713ff4f6fd0eafd59fa94e8a4ba922d
> 2) Improve idle cputime accounting:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9cfb9b3c3a7361c793c031e9c3583b177ac5debd
> 3) Improve precision of process accounting:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aa5e97ce4bbc9d5daeec16b1d15bb3f6b7b4f4d4
> 4) Improve precision of idle time detection:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6f43092441bda528dd38f2dc6c1e2522c5079fb7
> 
> Would you kindly share your test cases with LTP
> (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/wiki/), that you might have used to test
> this enhancement(s) before the merge ?

Well, we compared the numbers generated from the z/VM performance
toolkit with the numbers generated by Linux. There is no automated
test-case we could add to LTP.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.