On Thu, 8 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 06:12:12PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > I'm trying to test the scheduler latency on a powerpc platform. It appears
> > that a realfeel type of program won't work since you can't program /dev/rtc
> > to generated interrupts on powerpc. Is there anything similar which could
> > be done?
>
> Why would you want to use an interrupt? Just count jiffies in sched.c
I don't know what he does mean for scheduler latency, but if it is the ctx
switch one something like get_cycles() will be better instead of jiffies.
- Davide
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