/******************************************************************************* Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2011. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . benchctxswitch.c Benchmarks the speed of context switches. *******************************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include static int uptime(uintmax_t* usecs) { struct timespec uptime; if ( clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOT, &uptime) < 0 ) return -1; *usecs = uptime.tv_sec * 1000000ULL + uptime.tv_nsec / 1000ULL; return 0; } int main(void) { pid_t slavepid = fork(); if ( slavepid < 0 ) err(1, "fork"); if ( slavepid == 0 ) { while ( true ) { usleep(0); } exit(0); } uintmax_t start; if ( uptime(&start) ) err(1, "uptime"); uintmax_t end = start + 1ULL * 1000ULL * 1000ULL; // 1 second size_t count = 0; uintmax_t now; while ( !uptime(&now) && now < end ) { usleep(0); count += 2; /* back and forth */ } printf("Made %zu context switches in 1 second\n", count); kill(slavepid, SIGKILL); return 0; }