Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] sched/deadline: Tracepoints for deadline scheduler

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:29:07PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:11:45 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Yes, we don't want to get rid of the old one. But it shouldn't break
> > > anything if we extend it. I'm thinking of extending it with a dynamic
> > > array to store the deadline task values (runtime, period). And for non
> > > deadline tasks, the array would be empty (size zero). I think that
> > > could be doable and maintain backward compatibility.  
> > 
> > Why the complexity? Why not just tack those 32 bytes on and get on with
> > life?
> 
> 32 bytes that are zero and meaningless for 99.999% of scheduling?
> 
> The scheduling tracepoint is probably the most common tracepoint used,
> and one of the frequent ones. 32bytes of wasted space per event can
> cause a lot of tracing to be missed.

Typically you don't schedule _that_ often. Sure if you run pipe-bench
and hit ~.5e6 ctx/s its ~15M/s extra. But building a kernel gets me
~.5e3 ctx/s (per cpu), at which rate its 15K/s extra.

But sure, if you want to make it fancy have at.