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From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] (RFC) X86: add IPI tracepoints
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:25:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1405887954.11927.5.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405660735-13408-5-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 01:18 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On X86 there are already tracepoints for IRQ vectors through which IPIs
> are handled.  However this is highly X86 specific, and the IPI signaling
> is not currently traced.
> 
> This is an attempt at adding generic IPI tracepoints to X86.

I welcome this, and fwiw have been trying out this patch. One thing I
would like to see, but due to overhead would probably be better suited
in userspace (trace-cmd, maybe?), is a more packed description of the
IPI. Ie: unifying ipi_init and ipi_exit and show overall cost of the
IPI.

Thanks,
Davidlohr


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-20 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-18  5:18 [PATCH 0/4] basic IPI tracing Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-18  5:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] tracepoint: add generic tracepoint definitions for " Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-23 13:24   ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-07-18  5:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: add IPI tracepoints Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-18 20:04   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-18 20:55     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-18 21:22       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-19  2:55         ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-19  3:30           ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-19 19:10         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-19 20:28           ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-19 20:50             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-19 21:56               ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-19 21:59           ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-23 22:18   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-18  5:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM64: " Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-21 10:36   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-18  5:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] (RFC) X86: " Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-18 20:27   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-18 20:59     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-21 22:54       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-07-23 22:00         ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-20 20:25   ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2014-07-21 22:35     ` Nicolas Pitre

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