SIGNALTEST

NAME

signaltest - signal roundtrip test software

SYNOPSIS

signaltest [ -a|--affinity NUM] [ -b|--backtrace USEC ] [-D|--duration TIME] [-h|--help] [--json FILENAME] [-l|--loops LOOPS ] [-p|--prio PRIO] [-q|--quiet] [-S|--smp] [-t|--threads NUM] [-m|--mlockall ] [-v|--verbose ]

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (’--’).
-a, --affinity[=PROC-SET]

Run threads on the set of processors given by PROC-SET. If PROC-SET is not specified, all processors will be used. Threads will be assigned to processors in the set in numeric order, in a round-robin fashion.
The set of processors can be specified as A,B,C, or A-C, or A-B,D-F, and so on*. The ! character can be used to negate a set. For example, !B-D means to use all available CPUs except B through D. The cpu numbers are the same as shown in the processor field in /proc/cpuinfo. See numa(3) for more information on specifying CPU sets. * Support for CPU sets requires libnuma version >= 2. For libnuma v1, PROC-SET, if specified, must be a single CPU number.

-b, --breaktrace=USEC

Send break trace command when latency > USEC

-D, --duration=TIME

Specify a length for the test run.
Append ’m’, ’h’, or ’d’ to specify minutes, hours or days.

--help

display usage information

--json=FILENAME

Write final results into FILENAME, JSON formatted.

-l, --loops=LOOPS

Number of loops: default=0 (endless)

-p, --priority=PRIO

Priority of highest priority thread

-q, --quiet

print a summary only on exit

-S, --smp

Set options for standard testing on SMP systems. Equivalent to using the options: "-t -a" as well keeping any specified priority equal across all threads

-t, --threads=NUM

number of threads: default=2

-m, --mlockall

lock current and future memory allocations

-v, --verbose

output values on stdout for statistics
format: n:c:v n=tasknum c=count v=value in us

AUTHOR

signaltest was written by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linuxtronix.de>.

This manual page was originally written by
John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>

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