Re: Scheduler regression: Too frequent timer interrupts(?)

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 13:19:23 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:

it's even simpler than that: use a user-space loop and an alert() based signal-handler triggered measurement to count the number of loops user-space can execute, per second.

Alternately, just measure how long it takes to execute a given (large) number of loops. This avoids the signal handler.

Chris

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