On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ken Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > schedstat is useful in investigating CPU scheduler behavior. Ideally,
> > I think it is beneficial to have it on all the time. However, the
> > cost of turning it on in production system is quite high, largely due
> > to number of events it collects and also due to its large memory
> > footprint.
> >
> > Most of the fields probably don't need to be full 64-bit on 64-bit
> > arch. Rolling over 4 billion events will most like take a long time
> > and user space tool can be made to accommodate that. I'm proposing
> > kernel to cut back most of variable width on 64-bit system. (note,
> > the following patch doesn't affect 32-bit system).
>
> thanks, applied.
>
> note that current -git has a whole bunch of new schedstats fields in
> /proc/<PID>/sched which can be used to track the exact balancing
> behavior of tasks. It can be cleared via echoing 0 to the file - so
> overflow is not an issue. Most of those new fields should probably be
> unsigned int too. (they are u64 right now.)
>
FWIW I can't see how this patch saves a _lot_ of space. The stats are
per domain or per rq, neither are things that have a lot of instances.
That said, I have no actual objection to the patch, just not getting it.
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