On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Nair, Reena via iovisor-dev
<iovisor-dev@...> wrote:

Hi,


I am trying to track the scheduling events of a particular process using the
static tracepoint: sched_switch.

A map entry is updated for each context switch, which is working fine,
however some of the events are missed while printing the value using
bpf_trace_printk() (Each context switch updates the value by '1', however
sometimes the output printed is not continuous).

What could be the reason?

If you try to print too much in a very short period of time, kernel
may skip some of prints.

Why is it given that PERF_OUTPUT is better than bpf_trace_printk?

perf_output is per process and bpf_trace_printk is global.

Is there any way to use PERF_OUTPUT with static tracepoints?

Yes. You can take a look at bcc/tests/python/test_usdt.py as an example.

Many Thanks,

Reena


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