#!/bin/bash # 1. Run cyclictest cyclictest -l100000000 -m -Sp90 -i200 -h400 -q >output # 2. Get maximum latency max=`grep "Max Latencies" output | tr " " "\n" | sort -n | tail -1 | sed s/^0*//` # 3. Grep data lines, remove empty lines and create a common field separator grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" output | tr " " "\t" >histogram # 4. Set the number of cores, for example cores=4 # 5. Create two-column data sets with latency classes and frequency values for each core, for example for i in `seq 1 $cores` do column=`expr $i + 1` cut -f1,$column histogram >histogram$i done # 6. Create plot command header echo -n -e "set title \"Latency plot\"\n\ set terminal png\n\ set xlabel \"Latency (us), max $max us\"\n\ set logscale y\n\ set xrange [0:400]\n\ set yrange [0.8:*]\n\ set ylabel \"Number of latency samples\"\n\ set output \"plot.png\"\n\ plot " >plotcmd # 7. Append plot command data references for i in `seq 1 $cores` do if test $i != 1 then echo -n ", " >>plotcmd fi cpuno=`expr $i - 1` if test $cpuno -lt 10 then title=" CPU$cpuno" else title="CPU$cpuno" fi echo -n "\"histogram$i\" using 1:2 title \"$title\" with histeps" >>plotcmd done # 8. Execute plot command gnuplot -persist