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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler regression: Too frequent timer interrupts(?)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:19:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E8BA08.8020908@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090417164918.GK8253@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> it's even simpler than that: use a user-space loop and an alert() 
> based signal-handler triggered measurement to count the number of 
> loops user-space can execute, per second.

Alternately, just measure how long it takes to execute a given (large) 
number of loops.  This avoids the signal handler.

Chris


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 19:53 Scheduler regression: Too frequent timer interrupts(?) Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17  7:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 13:42   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 14:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 14:29       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 14:51         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 15:04           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 15:28             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-23  4:42               ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-28 21:02                 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-28 21:23                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-28 21:21                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 15:35             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17 15:55               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 16:23                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 16:33                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 16:49                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17 17:19                     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-04-17 17:45                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 18:11                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 18:20                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 18:58                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 20:34                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-17 20:53                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 23:24                           ` Chris Friesen
2009-04-18  7:35                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18  7:59                             ` Andi Kleen

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