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SubjectRe: scheduler / perf stat question about CPU-migrations
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:11:03PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 16/06/11 16:03, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:46:26AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >> Can someone tell me how I'm being confused?
> >>
> >> I ran the following command as root:
> >>
> >> perf stat schedtool -a 1 -e e2fsck -ft /dev/funarg/kbuild
> >
> > A theory is that schedtool does:
> >
> > if (!fork()) {
> > set affinity there
> > launch e2fsck
> > }
>
> Well `taskset` and `chrt` from util-linux don't fork at least,
> so you could try those instead.

Even if they don't fork and change their own affinity, you'll get
migrations that happened since taskset/chrt were launched.

The only solution is too set perf affinity itself:

schedtool -a 1 -e perf stat -- e2fsck -ft /dev/funarg/kbuild

Taskset would work too.

>
> I also suggest protecting the command with --
> in case perf is not stopping at the first unrecognized option.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
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