From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng081251@gmail.com>,
"yangds.fnst" <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
bsegall@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Distinguish sched_wakeup event when wake up a task which did schedule out or not.
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:09:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140512150950.GP30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140512100908.07cc50bc@gandalf.local.home>
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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:09:08AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2014 08:47:30 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>
> > But that has nothing what so fucking ever to do with 'success'. Reusing
> > that trace argument for something entirely different is just retarded.
>
> And having a "success" field that his hard coded to "true" is also
> retarded. At least this change is fucking useful.
You know why that's there :/ And yes, I started hating tracepoints a lot
more ever since that happened.
> How about this. Add a new field called 'rq_added' or something. We can
> ever shrink the size of the "success" field and hard code it to true in
> the trace. That will never change. Then the caller of the tracepoint
> will send in a "true" or "false" to "rq_added" and we can add that
> tracepoint as well.
>
> What I mean by shrink the size of the success field is that it is
> currently 4 bytes in size. We can make it two (or one) and then add
> another field for the 'rq_added' and have that be two bytes as well.
> This shouldn't break any tools that use this.
>
> Point being, this is useful information, why not pass it to userspace?
Because it adds code to one of the hottest code paths in the kernel and
so far nobody had a sane explanation of WTF they were doing.
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-15 12:32 [PATCH 0/8] perf sched: Add trace event for sched wait Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] sched & trace: Add a trace event for wait Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 13:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 14:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 2/8] sched/wait: Add trace point before add task into wait queue Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 3/8] sched/wait: Use __add_wait_queue{_tail}_exclusive() as possible Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 13:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 9:51 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 4/8] sched/core: Skip wakeup when task is already running Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 13:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 10:22 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-22 11:56 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-22 13:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-22 17:10 ` bsegall
2014-04-22 17:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-22 18:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-05 6:32 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-05 6:34 ` [PATCH] sched: Move the wakeup tracepoint from ttwu_do_wakeup() to ttwu_activate() Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-05 14:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-06 0:19 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-06 0:26 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-06 2:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-06 1:29 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-06 1:52 ` [PATCH] sched: Distinguish sched_wakeup event when wake up a task which did schedule out or not Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-09 0:16 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-09 1:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-10 15:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <536F90BE.2080806@gmail.com>
2014-05-11 15:24 ` Fwd: " Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-11 16:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-11 18:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-12 6:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-12 8:58 ` Dongsheng Yang
2014-05-12 14:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-12 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-05-12 15:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-12 15:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 5/8] perf tools: record and process sched:sched_wait event Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] perf tools: add missing event for perf sched record Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] perf tools: Adapt the TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR to new value in kernel space Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 12:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] perf tools: Clarify the output of perf sched map Dongsheng Yang
2014-04-15 13:54 ` [PATCH 0/8] perf sched: Add trace event for sched wait Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 10:28 ` Dongsheng Yang
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