Re: kernbench on 512p

David Mosberger
2004-08-19T16:40:27Z

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:37:16 -0400, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said:

Jesse> On Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:29 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
>> >>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:16:33 -0400, Jesse Barnes >>>>>
>> <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said:
>>
Jesse> It would be nice if the patch to show which lock is contended
Jesse> got included.
>> Why not use q-syscollect? It will show you the caller of
>> ia64_spinlock_contention, which is often just as good (or better
>> ;-).

Jesse> Because it requires guile and guile SLIB, which I've never
Jesse> been able to setup properly on a RHEL3 based distro. Care to
Jesse> rewrite the tools in C or something? ;)

Why not file a bug-report to Red Hat instead? guile v1.6 and the
guile-SLIB are quite old and rather standard.

Of course, you could also run the analysis on a Debian system, which
comes standard with those packages.

--david