Re: [PATCH] instrument softirq raising
[email protected] (Frank Ch. Eigler) Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:06:02 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.tracing |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>> This will allow the measuring of softirq latencies, and will make it easier to
>> follow critical paths from irq arrival to process wakeup.
>> [...]
>> inline fastcall void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr)
>> {
>> + trace_mark(kernel_softirq_raise, "softirq %u", nr);
>> +
>> __raise_softirq_irqoff(nr);
It would probably be better to have instrumentation that marks both
the beginning and the end of a soft/hard irq handler.
- FChE