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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7] event: add tracepoint for accounting block time
On 11/28/2011 3:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 12:03 +0300, Andrew Vagin wrote:
>> This tracepoint shows how long a task is sleeping in uninterruptible state.
>>
>> E.g.
>> It may show how long and where a mutex is waited.
>
> Fair enough, makes one wonder how much it would take to make
> account_scheduler_latency() go away..

I would *love* to switch latencytop to using trace points / perf events.
But as long as this just means I get yelled at more for using "internal
ABIs" and the like at various occasions, I'm rather hesitant to turn
more tools into using perf.

(and we all know what the next steps to resolve this are, they just have
not happened yet; not all hope is lost)


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