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[PATCH] perf: add ability to record event period [message #44663]

Tue, 20 December 2011 14:32

Andrey Vagin
Messages: 9
Registered: December 2011

Junior Member

The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, kernel generates a
number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these
samples may be too big and a kernel throttles all samples above a
defined limit.

E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process, which
sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases.

swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns]
swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns]

In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and
in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events.
perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time.

Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As
result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and
we avoid throttling of samples.

The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a
kernel part of this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 1 +
tools/perf/perf.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 766fa0a..f8fd14f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &record.opts.sample_address,
"Sample addresses"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('T', "timestamp", &record.opts.sample_time, "Sample timestamps"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "period", &record.opts.period, "Sample period"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-samples", &record.opts.no_samples,
"don't sample"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "no-buildid-cache", &record.no_buildid_cache,
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.h b/tools/perf/perf.h
index ea804f5..64f8bee 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.h
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ struct perf_record_opts {
bool sample_time;
bool sample_id_all_avail;
bool system_wide;
+ bool period;
unsigned int freq;
unsigned int mmap_pages;
unsigned int user_freq;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 4a8c8b0..60ad028 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct perf_record_opts *opts)
if (opts->system_wide)
attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_CPU;

+ if (opts->period)
+ attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD;
+
if (opts->sample_id_all_avail &&
(opts->sample_time || opts->system_wide ||
!opts->no_inherit || opts->cpu_list))
--
1.7.1

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Re: [PATCH] perf: add ability to record event period [message #44666 is a reply to message #44663]

Tue, 20 December 2011 17:20

Arnaldo Carvalho de M[2] is currently offline

Arnaldo Carvalho de M[2]
Messages: 17
Registered: November 2011

Junior Member

Em Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 05:32:45PM +0300, Andrew Vagin escreveu:
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index 766fa0a..f8fd14f 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
> OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &record.opts.sample_address,
> "Sample addresses"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN('T', "timestamp", &record.opts.sample_time, "Sample timestamps"),
> + OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "period", &record.opts.period, "Sample period"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-samples", &record.opts.no_samples,
> "don't sample"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "no-buildid-cache", &record.no_buildid_cache,

You forgot to update the tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt tho.

I'm doing this for you this time, please take that into account next
time.

Regards and thanks for iterating thru this and working on perf!

- Arnaldo

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