Re: [PATCH] - kernel profiler & spinlock_contention

David Mosberger
2003-11-26T17:31:02Z

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:23:10 -0600, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

Jack> Profiling is more useful if addresses in spinlock_contention
Jack> were attributed to the caller of spinlock_contention.

Execuse the language, but I'm reading:

my tools suck so let's make the kernel suck!

Let's defer this discussion until next week, when I had a chance to
release my profiling tool. I think you'll then agree that it's much
better to leave the code as is. In fact, we should also have an
out-of-line contention handler for the read/write locks.

--david