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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@hpce.nec.com>,
	LSE <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [patch 2.6.0-test1] per cpu times
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:57:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718195747.GU8121@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718111850.C1627@w-mikek2.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:18:50AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On a somewhat related note ...
> We (Big Blue) have a performance reporting application that
> would like to know how long a task sits on a runqueue before
> it is actually given the CPU.  In other words, it wants to
> know how long the 'runnable task' was delayed due to contention
> for the CPU(s).  Of course, one could get an overall feel for
> this based on total runqueue length.  However, this app would
> really like this info on a per-task basis.
> Does anyone else think this type of info would be useful?
> A patch to compute/export this info should be straight forward
> to implement.

I wrote something to collect the standard queueing statistics a while
back but am not sure what I did with it. I think Rick Lindsley might
still have a copy around.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-18 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-18 16:35 [patch 2.6.0-test1] per cpu times Erich Focht
2003-07-18 18:18 ` [Lse-tech] " Mike Kravetz
2003-07-18 19:57   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-07-18 20:53     ` Rick Lindsley
2003-07-21  4:47   ` Peter Chubb
2003-07-23 21:50   ` bill davidsen
2003-07-23 23:32     ` Peter Chubb

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