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authorJochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de>2011-07-22 15:09:02 +0200
committerJochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de>2011-07-22 15:09:47 +0200
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rules/rt-tests.in: fix help text, explain differences
Signed-off-by: Jochen Frieling <jfr@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/rules/rt-tests.in b/rules/rt-tests.in
index f6969b74d..0b69caaf7 100644
--- a/rules/rt-tests.in
+++ b/rules/rt-tests.in
@@ -28,11 +28,17 @@ config RT_TESTS_HACKBENCH
bool
prompt "hackbench"
help
- Hackbench is both a benchmark and a stress test for the Linux
+ Hackbench is both a benchmark and a stress test for the Linux
kernel scheduler. It's main job is to create a specified number
- of pairs of schedulable enti‐ ties (either threads or traditional
+ of pairs of schedulable entities (either threads or traditional
processes) which communicate via either sockets or pipes and time
- how long it takes for each pair to send data back and forth.
+ how long it takes for each pair to send data back and forth.
+
+ This is the improved hackbench implementation, taken from (and
+ described inline in)
+ http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c
+
+ It uses a default of 100 loops, 10 groups and 20 FDs.
config RT_TESTS_PIP
bool