linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 19/20 -v5] Trace irq disabled critical timings

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Message-ID: <20080123212933.GA2282@Krystal>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:29:33 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/20 -v5] Trace irq disabled critical timings

* Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl) wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:27 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > Hi -
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:11:07PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > This patch adds latency tracing for critical timings
> > > (how long interrupts are disabled for).
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Is there an opportunity here to share effort with latencytop, and
> > ideally to use markers as much as possible for these event hooks?
> 
> I'm still thinking latencytop should only record stack traces and do the
> rest in user-space. 
> 
> Also, the things the latency tracer and latecytop measure are quite
> different. the latency tracer measures how long a non-schedulable
> section is, latencytop measures how a task was scheduled away.

Hrm, if it's really the only thing latencytop is doing.. ever thought
about trying LTTng ? ;) A simple plugin could be written in lttv to
perform this kind of analysis.

Mathieu

> 

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