Re: [PATCH] - kernel profiler & spinlock_contention

David Mosberger
2003-11-26T19:15:01Z

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:02:30 -0600, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

Jack> However, if your new tools allows me to determine the caller
Jack> of spinlock_contention (I'm guessing that it does), that is
Jack> even better!!

Absolutely. Best of all, it requires absolutely no kernel modes.
All it requires is a recent 2.6 kernel and an Itanium 2 CPU
(sorry, Merced is out for this feature).

Jack> If a prerelease version of the tools is available, I'll be
Jack> happy to try it on our system

I'll see what I can do.

--david