Re: add mlockall option to cyclictest, et al

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On Sunday 25 May 2008 23:22:22 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008, Clark Williams wrote:
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> > Robert de Vries wrote:
> > > Clark Williams wrote:
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> > >> Thomas,
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> > >> Got a couple of requests for mlockall() in cyclictest, so I added an
> > >> --mlockall
> > >> option to cyclictest, signaltest and pi_stress.
> > >
> > > One small remark: it would be better to do the mlockall() by default.
> > > As far as I know this should be done always for real-time applications.
> > > I am actually surprised that it is not done already. It is also
> > > mentioned in the Howto build an RT-application on the RT linux wiki.
> > >
> > >    Robert
> >
> > I thought about that, but figured it would be better just to have the
> > option rather than change long-standing behavior.
> >
> > It's Thomas's call though :)
>
> I prefer an option. That gives the mm folks less of an excuse why they
> swap out hot memory :)

Hi Thomas,

unfortunately this nice feature didn't made it into rt-tests 0.23 release. Is 
there any plan to include this for upcoming rt-tests releases?

best regards,
Daniel
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