[LTP] [PATCH] open_posix/conformance/clock/1.1: Deterministic timing

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> On some systems the loop with 8 million iterations takes a very long time.
> This patches changes it to busy loop for five seconds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Vehlow <joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de>
> ---
>  .../conformance/interfaces/clock/1-1.c                 | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/clock/1-1.c b/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/clock/1-1.c
> index 9c48cd979..cce5beea9 100644
> --- a/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/clock/1-1.c
> +++ b/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/clock/1-1.c
> @@ -17,20 +17,22 @@
>  #include <time.h>
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
> +#include <time.h>
>  #include "posixtest.h"
>  
> -#define LARGENUMBER 8000000
> +#define BUSY_LOOP_SECONDS 5
>  int main(void)
>  {
>  	clock_t c1, c2;
>  	double sec1, sec2;
> -	int i;
> +	time_t end;
>  
>  	c1 = clock();
>  	sec1 = c1 / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < LARGENUMBER; i++) {
> -		// keep busy so CPU time increases
> +	end = time(NULL) + BUSY_LOOP_SECONDS;
> +
> +	while (end >= time(NULL)) {
>  		clock();
>  	}

clock_gettime() with CLOCK_MONOTONIC would be better fit there, since
the wall clock can be changed by ntp and generally is not guaranteed to
be monotonic...

>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
> 
> -- 
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz