Trouble with full nohz and lttng

From: Mats Liljegren
Date: Mon Apr 15 2013 - 09:57:08 EST


When I use lttng, I keep getting ticks. Without lttng, no ticks. It's
the same application I run, the same way. The only difference is
whether lttng logging has been started or not.

The trace says "sched" as reason for not disabled ticks. Using "top" I
can't see any extra process/thread being created while my application
runs, my application gets 99-101% of the CPU. There are a couple of
kworker threads (3), a migration thread and a ksoftirq thread on the
same CPU as my application, though "top" gives no indication that they
do any execution.

Is this a known limitation of lttng, or is there something else going on here?

/Mats
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