Hi,
On 2016-09-19 11:38 AM, David Aldrich wrote:
Hi Jonathan
Thanks for your reply. What is 'comm' in 'prev_comm'?
It correspond to the "comm" member of the task_struct struct [1].
The important part of [1]:
char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; /* executable name excluding path
- access with [gs]et_task_comm (which lock
it with task_lock())
- initialized normally by setup_new_exec */
Also know as the executable name.
Cheers.
[1] include/linux/sched.h of the kernel tree
Best regards
David
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Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Beginner question: how to inspect scheduling of
multi-threaded user application?
Hi
On 2016-09-16 07:43 AM, David Aldrich wrote:
Hi
I wonder if I might ask for some more guidance please?
I now have lttng and Trace Compass running on Ubuntu. I want to inspect
the scheduling of threads in my user-space application. So far, I have
successfully captured a trace with the sched_switch event enabled:
$ sudo lttng enable-event -k sched_switch
This indeed shows my app's threads. However, it also shows all the other
threads in the system and does not show clearly (to my understanding)
when the threads are scheduled / blocked.
I would like some guidance on how to improve this tracing.
1) Would it be better if I defined my own “tracepoint providers” and then
set trace events for when a thread wakes / blocks?
Could be a solution but you might want the built-in utility of lttng to filter
out all noise first using the filtering feature.
e.g I'm interested in sched_switch event where chrome is involved
lttng create
lttng enable-event --kernel "sched_switch" --filter 'prev_comm == "chrome*"
|| next_comm == "chrome*"'
lttng start
....
Using TraceCompass you will be mainly interested in the Control Flow View
and the Resource view (show per cpu timeline activity).
2) How could I show which core a thread is running on?
The Resource view from TraceCompass should help here.
Cheers
Best regards
David
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