linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:54:36 +0100
From:   Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
To:     Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running

On 06/29/20 15:23, Phil Auld wrote:
> Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks
> ->nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and
> provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the
> form of a heat map.  The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external
> kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including
> the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at:
> 
>   https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git
> 
> A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be
> found at:
> 
>   https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running
> 
> The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which
> are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in
> the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include
> is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
> CC: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> CC: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>

Thanks

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Qais Yousef