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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@elte.hu, tzanussi@gmail.com,
	jbaron@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/events: Add timer and high res timer tracepoints
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 12:31:36 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905201229280.5983@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090520101334.GA23442@kryten>

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> Add tracepoints for timer and high res timer execution. We add entry and
> exit tracepoints so we can calculate timer latency.
> 
> Example ftrace output:
> 
> <idle>-0     [000]   264.040506: hrtimer_entry: func=.tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xf0
> <idle>-0     [000]   264.040508: hrtimer_exit: func=.tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xf0 restart=HRTIMER_RESTART
> <idle>-0     [000]   264.040530: timer_entry: func=.e1000_watchdog+0x0/0x8fc
> <idle>-0     [000]   264.040728: timer_exit: func=.e1000_watchdog+0x0/0x8fc
> 
> Here we can see e1000_watchdog is taking 0.2ms - it might make sense to
> move this into a workqueue or kernel thread.

Cute. That should help us to pinpoint more such timer abusers :)

> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-20 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-20 10:13 Anton Blanchard
2009-05-20 10:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-20 10:31 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2009-05-21  0:01 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-05-21  0:13   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-21 12:38   ` Anton Blanchard
2009-05-25 20:00     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-26  4:26 ` Anton Blanchard
2009-05-26  4:31   ` [PATCH] tracing/events: Rename worklet_execute to worklet_entry and worklet_complete to worklet_exit Anton Blanchard
2009-05-26  4:32     ` [PATCH] tracing/events: Use %pf in workqueue trace events Anton Blanchard
2009-05-26  4:36       ` tracing/events: Add tasklet tracepoints Anton Blanchard
2009-05-29 13:16     ` [PATCH] tracing/events: Rename worklet_execute to worklet_entry and worklet_complete to worklet_exit Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-05-26  4:55   ` [PATCH v3] tracing/events: Add timer and high res timer tracepoints Anton Blanchard
2009-05-26 18:06   ` [PATCH] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-27  9:28     ` Xiao Guangrong
2009-05-27 14:22       ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-27 14:48         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-29  0:55           ` [PATCH] tracing/events: Add timer and high res timertracepoints Zhaolei
2009-05-27 13:46     ` [PATCH] tracing/events: Add timer and high res timer tracepoints Thomas Gleixner

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