linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Add basic tracepoints to track workqueue execution

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Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:35:43 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	tj@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Add basic tracepoints to track workqueue
	execution

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:14:02PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> With the introduction of the new unified work queue thread pools,
> we lost one feature: It's no longer possible to know which worker
> is causing the CPU to wake out of idle. The result is that PowerTOP
> now reports a lot of "kworker/a:b" instead of more readable results.
> 
> This patch adds a pair of tracepoints to the new workqueue code,
> similar in style to the timer/hrtimer tracepoints.
> 

Hi,

it might also be nice to add a workqueue chapter to the traceopint docbook.
Since you've already included kernel-doc style comments, the below is all that
we need.

current book is at: http://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/tracepoint/

thanks,

-Jason


Add a workqueue chapter to the tracepoint docbook

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>

---
 Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
index e8473ea..b57a9ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
@@ -104,4 +104,9 @@
    <title>Block IO</title>
 !Iinclude/trace/events/block.h
   </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="workqueue">
+   <title>Workqueue</title>
+!Iinclude/trace/events/workqueue.h
+  </chapter>
 </book>
-- 
1.6.0.6

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