Jon,
you can also use Oprofile.
You have to configure your kernel for using it, then you have to run the 
Oprofile application while your application is running.
Please check
http://oprofile.sourceforge.net
for more info.

Bye Daniele


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Jon Povey
Inviato: giovedì 23 giugno 2011 10.36
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Oggetto: How to investigate latency causes

Hi folks,

I am working on a video recording app on DM365, using DVSDK 4.02
which means kernel 2.6.32.

Anyone got any advice on how to trace latency issues on this kernel?
I was hoping to use tools/perf, but it's not supported for ARM on
this old kernel it seems.

I want to see what is going on when my process stalls so I can look
at things like user+kernel thread priorities, threaded ISRs etc. to
meet realtime deadlines.

Kprobes maybe? There are various historical performance analysis tools
that seem to have come and gone for Linux, any tips that can save me
wasting time looking into less useful ones would be welcome.

Related, I'd be interested to know how possible it is to use DMAI etc.
on top of the current mainline kernel, or what's missing. For now I'm
sticking with the TI DVSDK+PSP bundle but might want to change kernels
before too long. Maybe I should ask that separately, later.

Thanks,

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