Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.15-ck1

[Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@gorzow.mm.pl>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 14:57 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> sounds like we need some sort of profiler or benchmarker or at least a
> tool that helps finding out which timers are regularly firing, with the
> aim at either grouping them or trying to reduce their disturbance in
> some form.
> 

You mean something like a modification to timer debugging patch to
record the last time the timer fired, right?
Timertop could then detect the pattern and provide frequency, standard
deviation and other statistical data.
It would be much more expensive to test of course.

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