linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:16:02 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> writes:
> 
>> The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the
>> release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize
>> system latencies.
> 
> Just for completeness -- Linux already had a way to profile latencies
> since quite some time. It's little known unfortunately and doesn't
> work for modules since it's a special mode in the old non modular kernel
> profiler. 
> 
> You enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS and boot with profile=sleep and then you can
> use the readprofile command to read the data. Information can be reset with 
> echo > /proc/profile
> 
> There's also a profile=sched to profile the scheduler which works even
> without CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS

yes indeed; I sort of use the same infrastructure inside the scheduler; the biggest
reason I felt I had to do something different was that I wanted to do per process
data collection, so that you can see for a specific process what was going on.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/