linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] function-graph: ignore times across schedule

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:27:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] function-graph: ignore times across schedule


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> > 
> > Impact: more accurate timings
> > 
> > The current method of function graph tracing does not take into
> > account the time spent when a task is not running. This shows functions
> > that call schedule have increased costs:
> > 
> >  3) + 18.664 us   |      }
> >  ------------------------------------------
> >  3)    <idle>-0    =>  kblockd-123
> >  ------------------------------------------
> > 
> >  3)               |      finish_task_switch() {
> >  3)   1.441 us    |        _spin_unlock_irq();
> >  3)   3.966 us    |      }
> >  3) ! 2959.433 us |    }
> >  3) ! 2961.465 us |  }
> 
> dunno - i actually like how it shows the _real_ elapsed time. Why is 
> this wrong?

OK,

I'll include a trace option called "sleep-time" to allow the user to 
decide to show this or not.

-- Steve

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