linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] perf lock: New subcommand "perf lock", for analyzing lock statistics

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:34:03 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] perf lock: New subcommand "perf lock", for
	analyzing lock statistics

On Fri, Jan 22 2010, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> Adding new subcommand "perf lock" to perf.
> 
> I made this patch series on
> latest perf/core of tip (ef12a141306c90336a3a10d40213ecd98624d274),
> so please apply this series to perf/core.

[snip]

I wanted to give this a go today, since I think it's pretty nifty and a
lot better than using /proc/lock_stat. But it basically spirals the
system into death [1]. How big a system did you test this on?

[1] Got this: [  117.097918] hrtimer: interrupt took 35093901 ns

-- 
Jens Axboe

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