linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] sched: Fix sched

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Date:	Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:02:22 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Francis Giraldeau <francis.giraldeau@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] sched: Fix sched_wakeup tracepoint

On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 13:23 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> OK, so considering the definition naming feedback you provided, we
> may need a 3 tracepoint if we want to calculate both wakeup latency
> and scheduling latency (naming ofc open to discussion):
> 
> sched_wakeup: when try_to_wake_up{,_local} is called in the waker.
> sched_activate_task: when the wakee is marked runnable.
> sched_switch: when scheduling actually happens.

I would propose:

	sched_waking: upon calling try_to_wake_up() as soon as we know we need
to change state; guaranteed to be called from the context doing the
wakeup.

	sched_woken: the wakeup is complete (task is runnable, any delay
between this and actually getting on a cpu is down to the scheduler).

	sched_switch: when switching from task @prev to @next.

This means abandoning trace_sched_wakeup(); which might be a problem,
which is why I bloody hate tracepoints :-(

> We can then calculate wakeup latency as
> 
>   time@...ed_activate - time@...ed_wakeup
> 
> And scheduling latency as
> 
>   time@...ed_switch - time@...ed_activate
> 
> In the case of critical path analysis, we don't care about this
> level of granularity. What we care about is is sum of the two,
> which we can express as:
> 
>   time@...ed_switch - time@...ed_wakeup
> 
> Is there an officially blessed name for this ?

No idea.
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