Re: [PATCH] schedstat-2.6.0-test5-A1 measuring process scheduling latency

From: Rick Lindsley
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 20:03:31 EST


An alternative is my microstate accounting patch, which lets you do
the same thing (with rather less intrusiveness) but per-thread.

[ ... snip ... ]

My own observations tend me to the idea that a process waiting for
disk I/O isn't awoken fast enough, at least on my laptop.

I'm not sure that it's any less or more intrusive, but it's at least
another way of doing the same thing. So since you've taken some
measurements, what's the length of time you find your process waits
to hit the processor after getting the I/O it needs? What's the time
it seems to wait when it skips (what's the cutoff at which you hear
a skip versus don't hear one?)

Rick
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