Re: [Bug #12465] KVM guests stalling on 2.6.28 (bisected)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Another test would be to build the scheduler latency tracer into your 
> > kernel:
> > 
> >     CONFIG_SCHED_TRACER=y
> > 
> > And enable it via:
> > 
> >     echo wakeup > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
> > 
> > and you should be seeing the worst-case scheduling latency traces in 
> > /debug/tracing/trace, and the largest observed latency will be in 
> > /debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency [in microseconds].
> 
> Note, the wakeup latency only tests realtime threads, since other 
> threads can have other issues for wakeup. I could change the wakeup 
> tracer as wakeup_rt, and make a new "wakeup" that tests all threads, but 
> it may be difficult to get something accurate.

hm, that's a significant regression then. The latency tracer used to 
measure the highest-prio task in the system - be that RT or non-rt.

	Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/