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| author | David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> | 2010-02-24 16:04:47 +0100 |
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| committer | David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> | 2010-02-24 16:04:47 +0100 |
| commit | 1bb501caeb0c98c58d71bacfe904c89f798bb2cb (patch) | |
| tree | 114b65c1807e0805430f34f81ac7cfb22fa2c910 | |
| parent | fb278a79b5c4681e6c62ac4ef355ffe5a87b28ff (diff) | |
| download | rt-tests-1bb501caeb0c98c58d71bacfe904c89f798bb2cb.tar.gz | |
hackbench, man page: Added another contributor and a brief history of hackbench
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diff --git a/src/hackbench/hackbench.8 b/src/hackbench/hackbench.8 index ccd7e51..ed3aa08 100644 --- a/src/hackbench/hackbench.8 +++ b/src/hackbench/hackbench.8 @@ -46,12 +46,26 @@ Hackbench will use fork() on all children (default behaviour) .B \-\-help .br Shows a simple help screen -.\".TP - -.\" .SH "AUTHORS" -hackbench was written by Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, with contributions -from Craig Thomas, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> and David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> +.LP +hackbench was written by Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> +with contributions from Craig Thomas, Yanmin Zhang +.br +<yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>, +Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> and David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> This manual page was written by Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> and David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> +.SH "HISTORY" +This version of hackbench is based on the code downloaded from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs\-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c. +Yanmin Zhang merged the original hackbench code from +.br +http://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c +which uses fork() and a modified version from +.br +http://www.bullopensource.org/posix/pi\-futex/hackbench_pth.c +which uses pthread only and gave the possibility to change +behaviour at run time. Hackbench have since then gone through some +more rewriting to improve error handling and proper tracking of fork()ed +children, to avoid leaving zombies on the system if hackbench stops +unexpectedly. |