From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263847AbUHSQk1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:40:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266679AbUHSQk1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:40:27 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:21145 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263847AbUHSQkY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:40:24 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16676.55284.896783.567359@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:40:20 -0700 To: Jesse Barnes Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernbench on 512p In-Reply-To: <200408191237.16959.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> References: <200408191216.33667.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <16676.54657.220755.148837@napali.hpl.hp.com> <200408191237.16959.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:37:16 -0400, Jesse Barnes said: Jesse> On Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:29 pm, David Mosberger wrote: >> >>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:16:33 -0400, Jesse Barnes >>>>> >> said: >> Jesse> It would be nice if the patch to show which lock is contended Jesse> got included. >> Why not use q-syscollect? It will show you the caller of >> ia64_spinlock_contention, which is often just as good (or better >> ;-). Jesse> Because it requires guile and guile SLIB, which I've never Jesse> been able to setup properly on a RHEL3 based distro. Care to Jesse> rewrite the tools in C or something? ;) Why not file a bug-report to Red Hat instead? guile v1.6 and the guile-SLIB are quite old and rather standard. Of course, you could also run the analysis on a Debian system, which comes standard with those packages. --david