deadline_test(8)

deadline_test8

High resolution test program

Usage

deadline_test [-hb] [-c CPUSET] [-i INTV] [-p PERCENT] [-P PERCENT] [-r PRIO] [-s STEP] [-t NUM]

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

Overview

This program is used to test the deadline scheduler (SCHED_DEADLINE tasks)

Options

-b

Bind on the last cpu. (shortcut for -c <lastcpu>)

-c CPUSET

Comma/hyphen separated list of CPUs to run deadline tasks on

-h

Show this help menu

-i INTV

The shortest deadline for the tasks

-p PERCENT

The percent of bandwidth to use (1-90%)

-P PERCENT

The percent of runtime for execution completion (default 100%)

-r PRIO

Add an RT task with given prio to stress system

-s STEP

The amount to increase the deadline for each task in us (default 500us)

-t NUM

The number of threads to run as deadline (default 1)

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12–13
  3. Arch

Author

Deadline test was written by Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by John Kacur <[email protected]>

From rt-tests 2.11-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.