Re: [PATCH RT] Add histograms of potential and effective wakeuplatencies

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Sep 14 2009 - 21:01:23 EST


On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 02:20 +0200, Carsten Emde wrote:
> Resuscitated and enhanced the kernel latency histograms provided
> originally by Yi Yang and adapted and converted by Steven Rostedt.
>
> Latency histograms in the current version
> - can be enabled online and independently
> - have virtually no performance penalty when configured but not enabled
> - have very little performance penalty when enabled
> - use already available wakeup and switch tracepoints
> - give corresponding results with the related tracer
> - allow to record wakeup latency histograms of a single process
> - record the process where the highest wakeup latency occurred
> - are documented in Documentation/trace/histograms.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@xxxxxxxxx>

I did a quick scan of the patch and this looks much nicer.

Good work!

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve


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