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diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_description.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_description.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8973c5df888f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_description.rst @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The **rtla osnoise** tool is an interface for the *osnoise* tracer. The +*osnoise* tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads read the +time in a loop while with preemption, softirq and IRQs enabled, thus +allowing all the sources of operating systme noise during its execution. +The *osnoise*'s tracer threads take note of the delta between each time +read, along with an interference counter of all sources of interference. +At the end of each period, the *osnoise* tracer displays a summary of +the results. |