Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] tracing: Add Hardware Latency detector tracer

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Aug 09 2016 - 14:30:46 EST


On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:15:16 -0500
Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:30:33 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Note, I'm currently working on adding code to detect NMIs to this as
> > well. And perhaps even tracing SMI counters. Just to show what caused
> > the latency, as latency isn't measured by the counters (that I know of).
> >
>
> I like the trace report, but for one small thing; I think it's worth
> either adding units to the reported latency values (us suffix) or
> putting in a header line that hwlatdetect values are reported in
> microseconds.

Yeah, adding "us" to the time stamps would be useful. I'll update.

-- Steve