NAME = 'monotonic_time' AUTHOR = 'Michael Davidson ' TIME = 'MEDIUM' TEST_CLASS = 'Kernel' TEST_CATEGORY = 'Functional' TEST_TYPE = 'client' DOC = """ monotonic_time checks various time interfaces: gettimeofday() clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONTONIC) TSC for monotonicity. Based on time-warp-test.c by Ingo Molnar. """ # # Test gettimeofday(), TSC, and clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) # # Tests run for 'duration' seconds and check that the selected # time interface does not go backwards by more than 'threshold'. # # Note that the threshold value has the same resolution as the # clock source: # gettimeofday() - microseconds # clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) - nanoseconds # TSC - CPU clock cycles # # job.run_test('monotonic_time', tag='gtod', test_type='gtod', duration=300, threshold=0) job.run_test('monotonic_time', tag='clock', test_type='clock', duration=300, threshold=0) job.run_test('monotonic_time', tag='tsc', test_type='tsc', duration=300, threshold=0)