Hello, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Alan Cox<a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:38:06 +0100 > > in drivers because there is driver code that uses spin_is_locked() in > fairly sensible fashion when dealing with locking. > One use is to measure lock contention hits on a particular spin lock.
However I wonder if there are tracing capabilities to measure lock contention on a particular lock? Currently I have inserted code much like this to get a feeling on the contention: this_cpu = get_cpu(); put_cpu(); contention = spin_is_locked(&lock); spin_lock*(&lock); if (contention) { /* spin lock was contended, prev_cpu, this_cpu */ /* no hard guarantee, as we had a possible race inbetween is_locked() and lock(), but works for driver/irq spin lock */ } /* critical section */ prev_cpu = this_cpu; spin_unlock*(&lock); Regards, -- Leon _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev