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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:18:39 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduler / perf stat question about CPU-migrations
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:11:03PM +0100, P?draig Brady wrote:
> On 16/06/11 16:03, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:46:26AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >> Can someone tell me how I'm being confused?
> >>
> >> I ran the following command as root:
> >>
> >> 	perf stat schedtool -a 1 -e e2fsck -ft /dev/funarg/kbuild
> > 
> > A theory is that schedtool does:
> > 
> > if (!fork()) {
> > 	set affinity there
> > 	launch e2fsck
> > }
> 
> Well `taskset` and `chrt` from util-linux don't fork at least,
> so you could try those instead.

Even if they don't fork and change their own affinity, you'll get
migrations that happened since taskset/chrt were launched.

The only solution is too set perf affinity itself:

	schedtool -a 1 -e perf stat -- e2fsck -ft /dev/funarg/kbuild

Taskset would work too.

> 
> I also suggest protecting the command with --
> in case perf is not stopping at the first unrecognized option.
> 
> cheers,
> P?draig.
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