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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000
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to wait on the timerlat_fd. Once the workload is awakes, it goes to sleep again
adding so the measurement for the kernel-to-user and user-to-kernel to the tracer
output.
+
+**-U**, **--user-load**
+
+ Set timerlat to run without workload, waiting for the user to dispatch a per-cpu
+ task that waits for a new period on the tracing/osnoise/per_cpu/cpu$ID/timerlat_fd.
+ See linux/tools/rtla/sample/timerlat_load.py for an example of user-load code.