Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:05:10 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kstat change to see how much Linux SMP really scale well |
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On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:13:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Now the dream would be detailed per spinlock counters, > > unfortunately the current spinlock declaration syntax makes it hard > > to name them (and for dynamic spinlocks embedded in other > > structures a different way would be needed anyways than to > > statically name the spinlocks - for them reading System.map doesn't > > work well neither). This means for named spinlock profiling it is > > needed to change all spinlock users :(:(. I believe for effective > > SMP tuning in 2.3 they are definitely needed though. > > I think this is something has to be done in the patch-ikd-arca and not in > the mainstream kernel. patch-ikd-arca has just many neat features very > very useful for both profiling and debugging the kernel. But since it's > only something that only hackers will care about it's here instead of in > the kernel ;) > > ftp://e-mind.com/pub/linux/patch-ikd-arca/ > > I forget to do a 2.2.3 release, hopefully the 2.2.2 will works fine in > 2.2.3...
I think spin lock profiling is important enough that it should get into 2.3.x.
For 2.2 timeframe existence in -ikd is probably the best way.
-Andi
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