mklatency

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Updated: 0.1
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NAME

mklatency - Artificially create latency through a blocking driver  

SYNTAX

mklatency
 

DESCRIPTION

The program mklatency uses the blocksys driver to artificially create a system latency for testing purposes. It may, for example, be used to make sure that the cyclictest tool is, in fact, able to determine a system latency should one occur (see example).  

OPTIONS

(none)  

FILES

blocksys.ko  

EXAMPLES

The following commands to be entered from two separate root shells:

Shell #1:

cyclictest -a -t -n -p99

Shell #2:

modprobe blocksys
mklatency
tail /var/log/messages
[..] kernel: blocksys: CPU #0 will be blocked for 2000000 nops
[..] kernel: blocksys: CPU #0 blocked about 1270 us

Shell #1: The cyclictest should have detected the generated latency.  

AUTHORS

Carsten Emde <C.Emdeªosadl.org>  

SEE ALSO

cyclictest(8)

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