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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: unpredictability in scheduler test results -- still present
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E2969F.9000303@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080930111217.GA21367@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:

>>> OTOH, what does 'truning on dftrace' exactly mean? Just enabling it in  
>>> the .config, or also activating it via /debug/tracing/current_tracer?

>> Just enabling it in the .config is enough to trigger the behaviour 
>> change.  I'm not explicitly activating any traces.

> ok, that would be a clear ftrace bug i guess?

It's either an ftrace bug or a fragile load balancer bug.  I wonder if 
it's related somehow to the stop_machine() call in ftrace_dynamic_init()?

Chris

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-18 22:45 unpredictability in scheduler test results Chris Friesen
2008-09-24 15:19 ` unpredictability in scheduler test results -- still present Chris Friesen
2008-09-24 23:37   ` Chris Friesen
2008-09-27 20:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-29 15:43       ` Chris Friesen
2008-09-30 11:12         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 21:14           ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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