* Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:27 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > Hi - > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:11:07PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > This patch adds latency tracing for critical timings > > > (how long interrupts are disabled for). > > > [...] > > > > Is there an opportunity here to share effort with latencytop, and > > ideally to use markers as much as possible for these event hooks? > > I'm still thinking latencytop should only record stack traces and do the > rest in user-space. > > Also, the things the latency tracer and latecytop measure are quite > different. the latency tracer measures how long a non-schedulable > section is, latencytop measures how a task was scheduled away.
Hrm, if it's really the only thing latencytop is doing.. ever thought about trying LTTng ? ;) A simple plugin could be written in lttv to perform this kind of analysis. Mathieu > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/