Re: [PATCH] sched: Distinguish sched_wakeup event when wake up a task which did schedule out or not.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon May 12 2014 - 11:28:28 EST


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:17:48AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:09:50 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Point being, this is useful information, why not pass it to userspace?
> >
> > Because it adds code to one of the hottest code paths in the kernel and
> > so far nobody had a sane explanation of WTF they were doing.
> >
>
> Is there a measurable difference with these extra tracepoints?

Dunno, nobody tried and reported. I suppose its sitting there along with
the coherent changelog.

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