base-hw: Virtualbox thread priorities

[Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger]

Hello Martin,

On 07/13/2015 12:47 PM, Martin Stein wrote:
> When looking at your raw counter values, I assume that this is caused by
> overflows. Some of your hardware values are near (uint32_t)~0 while your
> Qemu values are all relatively small. I've addressed this issue recently
> in [1]. Commit [2] there introduces 64 bit counter values, but maybe its
> also a good idea to check for overflows. The commits are on
> genodelabs/staging but not on genodelabs/master yet. Could you please
> give staging a try?

I cherry-picked the above mentioned commit (d9ec7fa...) and the test now
passes successfully:

[init -> init_2 -> test_fast] quota super period 1000000
[init -> init_2 -> test_fast] quota 599975
[init -> init_2 -> test_fast] counter A 8587417160
[init -> init_2 -> test_fast] counter B 16330577199
[init -> init_2 -> test_fast] done
[init -> init_2 -> test_midl] quota super period 1000000
[init -> init_2 -> test_midl] quota 199981
[init -> init_2 -> test_midl] counter A 3729701872
[init -> init_2 -> test_midl] counter B 5928486521
[init -> init_2 -> test_midl] done
[init -> init_1 -> test_slow] quota super period 1000000
[init -> init_1 -> test_slow] quota 49987
[init -> init_1 -> test_slow] counter A 1947120741
[init -> init_1 -> test_slow] counter B 2045329877
[init -> init_1 -> test_slow] done
Good: Slow counter A received 5.048 % CPU (goal 4.75 %)
Good: Slow counter B received 5.303 % CPU (goal 5.25 %)
Good: Middle counter A received 9.67 % CPU (goal 9.625 %)
Good: Middle counter B received 15.371 % CPU (goal 15.375 %)
Good: Fast counter A received 22.265 % CPU (goal 22.625 %)
Good: Fast counter B received 42.342 % CPU (goal 42.375 %)
Test succeeded

Thanks for all the help.

Regards,
Adrian