From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn't work due to /dev/rtc issues
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:38:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509003825.GR8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0305081735040.2094-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 06:12:12PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>> I'm trying to test the scheduler latency on a powerpc platform. It appears
>>> that a realfeel type of program won't work since you can't program /dev/rtc
>>> to generated interrupts on powerpc. Is there anything similar which could
>>> be done?
On Thu, 8 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Why would you want to use an interrupt? Just count jiffies in sched.c
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:38:23PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> I don't know what he does mean for scheduler latency, but if it is the ctx
> switch one something like get_cycles() will be better instead of jiffies.
True, if you're looking for performance tweaks and not pathologies (which
I was) you'll need something that accurate.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-08 22:12 how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn't work due to /dev/rtc issues Chris Friesen
2003-05-09 0:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-09 0:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-09 0:38 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-09 0:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-09 3:52 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-09 4:13 ` Roland Dreier
2003-05-09 6:07 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-09 4:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-09 6:14 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-09 6:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-09 6:53 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-09 7:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-09 16:47 ` Robert Love
2003-05-09 16:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-09 17:38 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-09 11:37 ` paubert
2003-05-09 8:23 ` mikpe
2003-05-09 8:17 ` how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn Giuliano Pochini
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-10 0:39 how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn' t work due to /dev/rtc issues Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-05-12 23:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] <493798056@toto.iv>
2003-05-12 5:04 ` how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn't " Peter Chubb
2003-05-12 5:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 0:20 how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn' t " Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-05-13 1:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 2:08 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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