Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:56:54 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_NO_HZ breaks blktrace timestamps |
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On Fri, Jan 11 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > they are from the scheduler git tree (except the first debug patch), > > > but queued up for v2.6.25 at the moment. > > > > So this means that blktrace will be broken with CONFIG_NO_HZ for > > 2.6.24? That's clearly a regression. > > 64-bit CONFIG_NO_HZ is a new feature in v2.6.24. If it happens on 32-bit > too and it didnt happen in v2.6.23 32-bit then it's a regression.
If blktrace worked in 2.6.23 and it doesn't in 2.6.24 because of some option that isn't immediately apparent, then it's a regression. Period.
> all this comes from blktrace's original decision of using sched_clock() > :-) It's not a global timesource and it's not trivial to turn it into a > halfways usable global timesource.
Hey, it was a high res time source and the only one easily available :) I'm fine with using another timesource, I'll take suggestions or patches any day!
-- Jens Axboe
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