Re: [diamon-discuss] Diamon Meeting on Tuesday February 9th, 2016, at 11h EDT (15h UTC)

Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:15:28 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi Martin,

We are trying to clarify with Mike Dolan whether the recording
feature of the conference system was working or not during the
call. As far as I can see, it did not appear to have worked,
even though the option was enabled in the conference system. :-(

Thanks,

Mathieu

----- On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:31 AM, Oberhuber, Martin [email protected] wrote:

> Hi Mathieu,
> 
> This looks like a very interesting approach and I've read the Blog,
> but unfortunately I can't make the 9th.
> 
> I don't think I would have much to contribute, but I am certainly
> interested in what others say. Could the session be recorded, or
> meeting notes posted? - Otherwise I'd be available from the 15th on,
> in case you'd consider moving the session.
> 
> Two questions came up for me when reading the blog,
> 
> 1. Julien writes  "We are not trying to solve a problem related to the
> interrupts
>   being masked for too long (ftrace already has some tools to help with that)."
>   Which are those tools? Any pointer would be appreciated.
> 
> 2. I really like the general usefulness of the latency_tracker and the many
> clever
>    ways it can be configured / leveraged - but it feels like an expert tool to me,
>    where you'd very clearly have to know what you're doing. Are there any ideas
>    making such expert tools more usable and discoverable by general users ?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Martin
> --
> Martin Oberhuber, SMTS / Product Owner - Development Tools, Wind River
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Desnoyers
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> Subject: [diamon-discuss] Diamon Meeting on Tuesday February 9th, 2016, at 11h
> EDT (15h UTC)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Following the blog post published two weeks ago [1], we would like to propose
> organizing a phone meeting with all interested members of this workgroup on
> February 9th to gather feedback and ideas for improvement on the subject of
> measuring and detecting high response time.
> 
> At EfficiOS, we have developed a kernel module for monitoring at run-time the
> delay between the moment the kernel starts processing an interrupt
> (do_IRQ) and the moment the target task gets scheduled in or has finished
> processing the data.
> 
> When a high latency is detected, it emits a tracepoint event and can wakeup a
> user-space script to take arbitrary actions as soon as possible.
> 
> The main intent is to provide an entry point in a kernel trace. After that,
> everyone has their own methodology to process the trace. The blog post
> illustrates what we can do with LTTng as an example but the detection and
> triggers are not coupled with any tracer.
> 
> The proposed agenda is a discussion around these points:
> - presentation of the scope of the problem
> - limitation of the current tools
> - overview of the latency_tracker module applied for this use-case
> -- current state
> -- use-cases
> -- future plans
> - from the audience: comments, ideas, other approaches, etc.
> 
> If you have other points you would like to discuss around this subject, please
> let me know and I will add them.
> 
> Also, if you wish to attend but can't make it at the proposed date and time, let
> us know.
> 
> The details for the conference call will be sent soon.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Julien & Mathieu
> 
> [1] https://lttng.org/blog/2016/01/06/monitoring-realtime-latencies/
> 
> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> EfficiOS Inc.
> http://www.efficios.com
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