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From: mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc
Subject: rhealstone
Keywords: real-time benchmark
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Date: 17 Feb 89 22:16:10 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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For what it's worth, Dr. Dobb's Journal in the Feb. '89 issue reports
goals for a real-time benchmark, a project spearheaded by R.P. Kar of
Intel Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR.  The article asks for suggestions
for improvements in order to produce a Rhealstone standard benchmark.
Suggestions are requested (in writing) by 1 March 1989, so that a
"final version" can be published in DDJ's June issue.

The items of measurement currently identified are:
  task switching time
  preemption time
  interrupt latency time
  semaphore shuffling time (signal => waiting process activation)
  deadlock breaking time (transfer ownership of critical resource
      from preempted low-priority task to high-priority task)
  datagram throughput time (pipe/message passing/stream file)
-- 
Mark Smotherman, Comp. Sci. Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
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