Re: [PATCH] posix-timers: RCU conversion

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Apr 05 2011 - 05:09:34 EST


On 04/05/2011 12:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 11:56 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> Could be waking up due to guest wakeups, or qemu internal wakeups
> (display refresh) or due to guest timer sources which are masked away in
> the guest (if that's the case we should optimize it away).

Right, so I guess we're all clutching at straws here :-)

Ben how usable is that system when its in that state? Could you run a
function trace or a trace with all kvm and sched trace-events enabled?

Ben, to do that, look up http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing; the command for combined sched/kvm tracing is

# trace-cmd record -b 20000 -e kvm -e sched



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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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