linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: change where we report sched stats

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Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:56:41 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
Cc:	bmaurer@...com, rkroll@...com, kernel-team@...com,
	mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: change where we report sched stats

On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 09:55 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:

> How did you do it?  I had one latency spike in a 90 minute test that 
> runs across 30 boxes that could have been caused by anything, so if 
> there is a way I could have easily found that without moving these 
> tracepoints around I'd love to hear it.  Thanks,

If I have a target, I tend to set tracing_off() traps.

Seems you want an ftrace tracer that tracks sched_switch sleeping to
sched_switch running in addition to the wakeup latency tracer.

-Mike

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