Re: scheduling anomaly on uml (was: -rt doesn't compile for UML)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 11:26:33 EST



* Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > to get symbolic stack backdumps for the wakeup points, and add
> > trace_special_sym() calls to generate extra stackdump entries at
> > arbitrary places. schedule() does not have it right now - it might
> > make sense to add it.
>
> OK, this helped.
>
> It looks like the delays are caused by the page allocator, and not
> UML. Which is good news, because I'm supposed to understand memory
> management better than scheduling.

heh :-) Scheduling isnt hard either - and looking at traces (especially
with mcount_enabled=1) certainly helps.

Ingo
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