Date : Saturday,4 March 2017
Writer : Ataya P


My old notebook was already out of date. So, I tried to make it running better by making real time kernel. Let's see how to do it ..

Working Platform :
Lenovo Notebook , Intel Pentium Dual Core T2080 1.73GHz
2Gbyte RAM
Ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS





Detail
1. Download Kernel sourcecode from
https://www.kernel.org/

2. Download realtime preemption patch that match the downloaded kernel version.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/

3. Extract kernel and patch the kernel
# tar xvf linux-3.2.83.tar.gz
# gzip -d patch-3.2.83-rt120.patch.gz
# cd linux-3.2.83
# patch -p1 < ../patch-3.2.83-rt120.patch

4. Config kernel to support realtime preemption.
# make distclean
# make i386_defconfig
# make xconfig

5. Enable CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL option


6. Enable HIGH_RES_TIMERS option


7. Disable all submenu of ACPI option


8. Disable APM option


9. Save config and make the kernel (option -j2 for my dual core PC)
# make -j2
# make -j2 modules
# make modules_install
# make install

10. Config your boot manager to boot the installed kernel.


11. Reboot your machine.

12. Check your loaded kernel version
# uname -a
Linux XXXXX 3.2.83-rt120 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Mar 3 10:06:41 ICT 2017 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

13. Install rt-tests tools for testing.
# apt-get install rt-tests

14. Install gnuplot for plotting the test result
# apt-get install gnuplot

15. Download plotting script from
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:sdietrich/rt-tests/cyclictest_run.sh
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:sdietrich/rt-tests/cyclictest_plot.sh

16. Run cyclictest and plot the result.
# ./cyclictest_run.sh 100000 > result
# ./cyclictest_plot.sh result

17. Compare the result between old kernel and patched realtime kernel runtime.