Re: [PATCH] trace: reset sleep/block start time on task switch

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Wed Jan 25 2012 - 21:27:56 EST


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 02:29:14PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On 1/25/12 12:15 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> >trace-cmd record -e sched_switch -f 'prev_state == 1 || prev_state == 2' -e sched_stat_sleep sleep 3
> >
> >I'm not sure the filter is even needed, and it should still keep up
> >fine.
>
> Better - I didn't see any overruns with trace-cmd.
>
> Even if we resolve the sampling rate related problems, there is the
> issue of: can we trust that a sampled sched_switch event and a
> sampled sched_stat_sleep event actually match each other?

Well, a sched_stat_sleep event should match the sched_switch with
prev as the last targeted task.

Or am I missing something?

>
> There is consensus here that touching an extra cacheline in the
> context switch path is a good trade-off given the usefulness of
> sleep profiling in troubleshooting latency problems.
>
> Since it may not be a good trade-off for everyone, we just need to
> figure out where to store some per-task state. To recap two
> potential paths to investigate:
>
> * store sleep_start someplace else that no one other than
> sched_stat_sleeptime() knows about.
>
> * store state in task struct that remembers whether the last context
> switch was a preemption or not.
>
> -Arun
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