Clark, >> [..] >> Here is my proposal: >> Do not change the meaning of existing options. Introduce a new option >> that is mutual exclusive with the -a, the -t and the -d option. This new >> option does the same as -a and -t and -d0 and sets the same priority to >> all threads. How about that? > Ugh, I truly *hate* adding options. Do you know that cyclictest is > halfway to having as many options as 'ls'? Well, yes, we have the choice between two bad things, breaking compatibility or adding another option. I prefer the latter. > [..] > How about if we create the -S/--smp option that takes no arguments and > causes -a, -t and -d to be ignored (with a warning). This option would > create one thread per cpu, each thread pinned to it's corresponding > cpu, all with the same sampling interval (i.e. -d0) and the same > priority? Sounds good to me. May I ask you to also include the -n option which is almost always needed? This would then give: -S --smp Standard SMP testing (equals -a -t -n -d0), same priority on all threads. Carsten. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html