Re: [Xen-devel] Tools for tracing process switching in dom0

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this in 2.6.18, or 2.6.27 (pv-ops)?

I'm not familiar with Linux tracing, but I think whatever is available
in either of those kernels should work in a similar way that it does
on bare metal.

If you want to see what Xen is doing, you can use xentrace.  Real Soon
Now (hopefully this week) I'll be releasing xenalyze, which is a
pretty powerful tool for extracting information from trace files.

 -George

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Roger
Cruz<rcruz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We are putting a heavy load on dom0 and some occasions we see cases
> where processes appear to stall (based on timestamp information in their
> log files).  I have not been able to determine what causes these
> processes to starve for CPU cycles but I'm guessing some other higher
> priority process/service may be coming in periodically and disrupting
> our process.
>
> I'm wondering if there are any Linux tracing/probing tools that work in
> dom0 that would allow me to capture (with a timestamp) all process
> context switches.
>
> Thanks
> Roger
>
>
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