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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ayman El-Khashab <ayman@elkhashab.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ppc44x - how do i optimize driver for tlb hits
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:11:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285366264.14081.33.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100924130851.GA14016@crust.elkhashab.com>

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 08:08 -0500, Ayman El-Khashab wrote:
> 
> I suppose another option is to to use the kernel profiling option I 
> always see but have never used.  Is that a viable option to figure out
> what is happening here?  

With perf and stochastic sampling ? If you sample fast enough... but
you'll mostly point to your routine I suppose... though it might tell
you statistically where in your code, which -might- help.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-23 15:12 ppc44x - how do i optimize driver for tlb hits Ayman El-Khashab
2010-09-23 22:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-23 22:35   ` Ayman El-Khashab
2010-09-24  1:07     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-24  2:58       ` Ayman El-Khashab
2010-09-24  4:43         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-24 10:30           ` Josh Boyer
2010-09-24 13:08             ` Ayman El-Khashab
2010-09-24 22:11               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-10-03 19:13                 ` Ayman El-Khashab
2010-10-03 22:38                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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