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Message-Id: <20090611045829.714510042@jonmasters.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:58:29 -0400
From: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu,
rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Hardware Latency Detector (formerly SMI detector)
Hi folks,
Please find attached my second re-write of the SMI detector, now called the
Hardware Latency Detector. This is a loadable module that grabs the CPU for
configurable periods of time (all under stop_machine()) and samples the TSC
looking for discontinuity. If observed latencies exceed a threshold (for
example caused by an System Management Interrupt or similar) then the
event is recorded in a global ring_buffer, readable via debugfs.
The previous version was too x86-centric, since there is no reason one could
not also use this newly renamed hwlat_detector on any supported platform with
some kind of underlying firmware/virtualization issues effecting observable
system latency measurements.
Thanks to akpm and others for feedback comments so far.
Changes since the previous version:
- Renamed to hwlat_detector
- Followed Andrew's cleanup advice
- Rewritten the documentation
Jon.
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