Re: [PATCH][RFC] Measuring term of acquiring spinlock

[Hitoshi Mitake]

From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Measuring term of acquiring spinlock
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:21:38 +0100

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:20:11AM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > > Thanks :)
> > > I haven't started it yet, because of some other things I need to finish.
> > > 
> > > Would you be interested in starting it?
> > 
> > Yes, I'm very interested in it!
> 
> 
> 
> Great!
> 
>  
> > > Such a tool would be very useful to profile the kernel locking.
> > > 
> > > It would be nice to use design close to what perf sched does:
> > > having an lock event structure that provides callbacks for each
> > > lock events so that we can easily plug various plugin inside.
> > > 
> > > It's just a suggestion in case you are interested and have time
> > > for that. Otherwise I'll do it later.
> > > 
> > > Hm?
> > 
> > I'd like to do that.
> > But I'm an only newbie, so it may take a week (or more).
> 
> 
> Don't worry about that. Take your time.
> 
> 
> > So If you finish this work, please post and disregard me :)
> 
> 
> No if you take it I won't start a concurrent work.
> 
> Don't hesitate if you have questions. This will be the first tool
> (at least that I'm aware of) that post-processes the lock
> event so you may encounter weird things, missing events,
> unappropriate sequences, or any bad things we haven't yet seen.

Thanks. Of course, I'll not hesitate at questioning :)

> 
> And don't forget to use -M on perf record to record
> the lock events so that you have them multiplexed across cpus
> and hence well ordered wrt time. If later we need something that
> scales better, we can still drop the use of -M and do the reordering
> from userspace.

Thanks for your advice! I'll do my best.

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