  An important characteristic of cyber-physical systems is their capability to
respond, in-time, to events from their physical environment. However, to the
best of our knowledge there exists no benchmark for assessing and comparing the
interrupt handling performance of different software stacks. Hence, we present
a flexible evaluation method for measuring the interrupt latency and throughput
on ARMv8-A based platforms. We define and validate seven test-cases that stress
individual parts of the overall process and combine them to three benchmark
functions that provoke the minimal and maximal interrupt latency, and maximal
interrupt throughput.
