[LITMUS^RT] [litmus-rt] Experiment scripts

Jonathan Herman hermanjl at cs.unc.edu
Thu Apr 18 19:52:18 CEST 2013


At the moment they do not. I have a TODO list for requested features which
I will be adding in the next few weeks. I can add in the IQR filtering you
have had in your scripts.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Björn Brandenburg <bbb at mpi-sws.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:33 PM, Glenn Elliott <gelliott at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Jonathan!  You didn't do yourself justice with your explanation!
> >
> > Jonathan's tool suite can:
> > 1) Automated overhead measurement: (step 1)  Buy a new system.  (step 2)
> Install Litmus and Jonathan's tools.  (step 3) Run a script with default
> parameters.  (step 4) A while later, you get overheads.
> > 2) Automated Litmus testing.  You give the scripts a few parameters, and
> it puts the various Litmus schedulers through their paces.
> > 3) Framework for repeatable experiments.  If you want to make your
> experiments repeatable for others, you can give them a few input files and
> parameters.  The scripts do the rest.
> >
> > -Glenn
> >
> > On Apr 12, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Jonathan Herman <hermanjl at cs.unc.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Running experiments in LITMUS was hard for me to figure out. I created
> a repository of experiment scripts for my successors at UNC to make their
> lives easier. These are based off the scripts used by Chris and I in our
> paper submissions. I made them as user-friendly as possible, so that I will
> get as few emails as possible. I've also integrated a few ideas from other
> people at UNC, included instant messaging (Mac) when an experiment
> completes, and emails (Glenn) when all experiments complete.
> >>
> >> The scripts can be found here:
> >> https://github.com/hermanjl/experiment-scripts
> >>
> >> I think it would be cool if a repository like this was actively
> maintained. Anyone want to take mine? Currently, it is very difficult for
> casual readers to re-create the experiments presented in our papers. It's
> also too hard to quickly test, debug, and evaluate changes to Litmus, so
> people just don't do it.
>
>
> Thanks a lot Jonathan! This looks indeed really great. I would love to
> adopt these as the "official" LITMUS^RT tracing setup.
>
> One question regarding the overhead experiments—do the scripts perform any
> outlier filtering?
>
> Thanks,
> Björn
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-- 
Jonathan Herman
Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill
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