The default scheduling policy if unspecified should be SCHED_FIFO. Before the change for example. sudo ./cyclictest policy: other: loadavg: 0.05 0.04 0.05 1/331 22367 T: 0 (22367) P: 0 I:1000 C: 1321 Min: 14 Act: 89 Avg: 77 Max: 942 After the change sudo ./cyclictest defaulting realtime priority to 2 policy: fifo: loadavg: 0.03 0.04 0.05 2/331 22387 T: 0 (22387) P: 2 I:1000 C: 713 Min: 17 Act: 41 Avg: 81 Max: 161 Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c index 066ca79..e4febec 100644 --- a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c +++ b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c @@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ static int use_nanosleep; static int timermode = TIMER_ABSTIME; static int use_system; static int priority; -static int policy = 0; +static int policy = SCHED_FIFO; /* default policy if not specified */ static int num_threads = 1; static int max_cycles; static int clocksel = 0; @@ -1037,7 +1037,6 @@ static void process_options (int argc, char *argv[]) if (num_threads < 1) error = 1; - if (error) display_help(1); } -- 1.6.0.6 -- 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
