Re: scheduler / perf stat question about CPU-migrations

[Pádraig Brady]

On 16/06/11 16:03, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:46:26AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> Can someone tell me how I'm being confused?
>>
>> I ran the following command as root:
>>
>> 	perf stat schedtool -a 1 -e e2fsck -ft /dev/funarg/kbuild
> 
> A theory is that schedtool does:
> 
> if (!fork()) {
> 	set affinity there
> 	launch e2fsck
> }

Well `taskset` and `chrt` from util-linux don't fork at least,
so you could try those instead.

I also suggest protecting the command with --
in case perf is not stopping at the first unrecognized option.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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