Keeping track of the CPU time for a thread

[Adam Lackorzynski]

Hi,

On Thu Jun 21, 2012 at 17:44:25 +0000, Mohammad A Haque wrote:
> I want to measure how much CPU time a thread has consumed. When the
> CPU time consumption exceeds a certain limit (specific to that
> thread), I want to raise an interrupt. Please suggest me how can I do
> it efficiently?

The L4::Thread interface has the stats_time function to get the consumed
time of a thread (FINE_GRAINED_CPUTIME in the kernel might be of
interest here). Triggering an interrupt goes with its trigger function.
Then it's just about plugging this together.



Adam
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