linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Distinguish sched_wakeup event when wake up a task which did schedule out or not.

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 11:17:48 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng081251@...il.com>,
	"yangds.fnst" <yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, bsegall@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Distinguish sched_wakeup event when wake up a
 task which did schedule out or not.

On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:09:50 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> > Point being, this is useful information, why not pass it to userspace?
> 
> Because it adds code to one of the hottest code paths in the kernel and
> so far nobody had a sane explanation of WTF they were doing.
> 

Is there a measurable difference with these extra tracepoints?

-- Steve

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