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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve spinlock debugging
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Giuliano Pochini wrote:

>
>It's very useful to log when a lock(irq) is held more than xx ms
>and who is the caller. Is it possible ?
>
Have you looked at SGI's lockmeter patch?
It's very good to check performance numbers of spinlocks.

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    Manfred

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