Re: [Valgrind-users] Task switch view

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

In message <474...@vs...>
        Tom Deblauwe <tom...@vs...> wrote:

> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by "task" here? Do you mean processes or threads
>> within a process?
>>
>> Either way the behaviour under valgrind will be so different to normal
>> that it is probably of little use to you. That said neither case is
>> going to be particularly deterministic anyway, regardless of whether
>> or not you are running under valgrind, unless you use locks to make it
>> so.
>
> I mean threads within a process.
> So it would require a new valgrind tool which only records thread
> switches for a certain process, there is too much data that is
> collected maybe with for example callgrind? No option to collect only
> the info I am talking about?

No such option, and because valgrind switches threads in a completely
different way to the normal operating system it won't help you much
to know what happens under valgrind.

Tom

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