Re: [PATCH] tracing/events: Add timer and high res timer tracepoints

Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-27T13:47:47Z

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:26:43PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > Add tracepoints for timer and high res timer execution. We add entry and
> > exit tracepoints so we can calculate timer latency.
>
>
> Your work looks very similar to Xiao Guangrong's patches.
>
> See:
>
> ftrace: add tracepoint for timer
> ftrace: add tracepoint for itimer
> ftrace: add tracepoint for hrimer
>
> I'm not sure which one should be picked between
> his patches and yours.

Actually we want a combination of both.

Thanks,
tglx