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Re: stap early exit
Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> writes:
> [...] I had encountered this kind of situation once, when I was
> probing frequently executed kernel function and collecting data in a
> global variable on big-smp system. I Increased the MAXTRYLOCK
> variable and that solved my problem.
One should see a "WARNING ... skipped probes: NNNN" message for this
case. Also, it is probable that the locking algorithm could be tuned
better for bigsmp machines, going beyond just tweaking the parameters
by hand.
- FChE