cyclictest was originally written by Thomas Gleixner and is now available on most platforms in a package named rt-tests. If you are using the Yocto Project, you can create a target image that includes rt-tests by building the real-time image recipe like this:
$ bitbake core-image-rt
If you are using Buildroot, you need to add the package BR2_PACKAGE_RT_TESTS in the menu Target packages | Debugging, profiling and benchmark | rt-tests.
cyclictest measures scheduling latencies by comparing the actual time taken for a sleep to the requested time. If there was no latency, they would be the same, and the reported latency would be zero. cyclictest assumes a timer resolution of less than one microsecond.
It has a large number of command-line ...
