Re: [RFT] port of Lockmeter on i386 2.5.64 Patch

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
10 Mar 2003 00:36:56 -0500


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 00:33, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> > +config LOCKMETER
> > + bool "Kernel lock metering"
> > + depends on SMP
>
> Should that be 'depends on SMP || PREEMPT'? I remember the original 2.4
> pre-empt patches had one to deal with instrumenting/breaking locks. Not sure
> if that logic still applies...

No, it depends on SMP alone.

To do the metering, it needs the actual locks compiled into the kernel.

I believe what you are thinking of is the preempt-stats patch, which
measures periods of non-preemptibility. Same idea but different.

Robert Love

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