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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to lock current->signal->tty
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:10:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DA2528.5010905@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809162440.GA14143@intel.com>

Luck, Tony wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:44:10AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Jes, read up on kprobes a little if you think its of no use in these
>> kind of situations. A systemtap script to count/measure alignment fault
>> rates and see who is causing the load isn't very hard to write.
> 
> But this does make sense ... the system administrator of a mainframe or
> super-computer can (and arguably should) be monitoring resource
> utilization and providing feedback to users on how to get the best
> performance from their applications.

Actually perfmon would probably be better suited for this on ia64 than
kprobes/systemtap. You can do it on hackish way with a [jk]probe, but it
isn't going to be all that pretty.

> -Tony (currently at 90% rip out this message, 10% add the mutex lock/unlock).

Nuke it!

Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 15:17 How to lock current->signal->tty Alan Cox
2006-08-08 15:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-08 15:44   ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 16:41     ` Luck, Tony
2006-08-08 17:50       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-09  8:09         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-09 10:44           ` Alan Cox
2006-08-09 11:26             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-09 16:24             ` Luck, Tony
2006-08-09 18:10               ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-08-08 22:06     ` Jan Kara
2006-08-08 17:11 ` Stephen Smalley
2006-08-08 17:43   ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 17:44     ` Stephen Smalley
2006-08-08 18:10       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-08 20:02     ` Stephen Smalley
2006-08-13 21:34 ` Jan Kara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-09  4:01 Albert Cahalan

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