Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

[Andi Kleen]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the
> release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize
> system latencies.

Just for completeness -- Linux already had a way to profile latencies
since quite some time. It's little known unfortunately and doesn't
work for modules since it's a special mode in the old non modular kernel
profiler. 

You enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS and boot with profile=sleep and then you can
use the readprofile command to read the data. Information can be reset with 
echo > /proc/profile

There's also a profile=sched to profile the scheduler which works even
without CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS

Latencytop will be probably a little more user friendly though.

-Andi
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