Benchmark Apps for RTEMS

[Rempel, Cynthia]

Hi Vivek Krishnamurthy,

Yes, the idea is to select and port (at least one) benchmarking kit to RTEMS, so users can benchmark their hardware... different simulators will be used to test whether the benchmark was successfully ported to RTEMS... Another part of the task would be to update the benchmark wiki kit with how to use the benchkit, possibly a README on how to use the benchkit with RTEMS, and suggested next steps for the next GSoC student...

After doing a quick look at the suggested benchmarks... it appears that of the several methods to porting applications to RTEMS, one of the simpler methods would be to change the Makefile to more closely match the examples-v2 Makefile because these benchmarks use a simple Makefile...

FWIW: it looks like the benchmarks were chosen, because they were computationally intensive and had few dependencies...

If necessary, this project could be extended by proposing/adding more benchmarks... or starting on another toolkit...

Hope this helps!
Cynthia Rempel
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From: rtems-devel-bounces at rtems.org [rtems-devel-bounces at rtems.org] on behalf of Vivek Krishnamurthy [vivek.k.murthy93 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:36 PM
To: rtems-devel at rtems.org
Subject: Benchmark Apps for RTEMS

I am also interested in developing benchmark applications for RTEMS. I would like to know what exists today in this area. Am I correct
in assuming that the benchmarking applications will be developed and run for various simulator/bsp pairs? I understand that I will be evaluating  open source benchmark kits and after a selection process, port one of them to RTEMS and run them on simulators.
As a start, I will begin looking at some benchmark kits that are indicated on http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/RTEMS_BenchKit

Please let me know your thoughts and what else I should be doing for this project.

Vivek K.