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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] apic: tracing IPI events
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:46:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806114611.GE1981@jolsa.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp9gc783.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:26:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > please let me know what you think
> 
> You forgot to state why you want it?
> 
> In generall the only case that should happen anytime commonly is mask,
> the others only for obscure uncommon paths.
> 
> However there is already accounting for it in /proc/interrupts
> that can be easily sampled. Does adding additional tracing really give 
> any value?

As I was asked to do that for other guys, I'm not completely sure.
Anyway the reason I got was, that while debuging crash it seemed 
some IPIs might got lost.

Also it'd be probably used as a tracepoint itself via additional code,
than by ring buffer tracing.

I'll check if I can get more justifing info..

jirka

> 
> -Andi
> -- 
> ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-05 11:09 Jiri Olsa
2010-08-05 11:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] apic: adding apic_send_IPI_* methods for apic's IPI callbacks Jiri Olsa
2010-08-05 11:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] apic,trace: IPI sent trace event Jiri Olsa
2010-08-06 11:26 ` [RFC 0/2] apic: tracing IPI events Andi Kleen
2010-08-06 11:46   ` Jiri Olsa [this message]

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