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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-11-11 17:14:07 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2009-11-11 22:22:15 -0500
commita6f0eb6adc42e5eed3f35af99c61c0e411b16f8e (patch)
tree85392e8c2878290b7f9ffdd644b5a02d5bd4bf78 /kernel/trace
parent4dae560f97fa438f373b53e14b30149c9e44a600 (diff)
ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
The ring_buffer_benchmark does a gettimeofday after every write to the ring buffer in its measurements. This adds the overhead of the call to gettimeofday to the measurements and does not give an accurate picture of the length of time it takes to record a trace. This was first noticed with perf top: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 679 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 1673.00 - 27.8% : trace_clock_local 806.00 - 13.4% : do_gettimeofday 590.00 - 9.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 554.00 - 9.2% : native_read_tsc 431.00 - 7.2% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 365.00 - 6.1% : __rb_reserve_next 355.00 - 5.9% : rb_end_commit 322.00 - 5.4% : getnstimeofday 268.00 - 4.5% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 262.00 - 4.4% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 113.00 - 1.9% : read_tsc 91.00 - 1.5% : debug_smp_processor_id 69.00 - 1.1% : trace_recursive_unlock 66.00 - 1.1% : ring_buffer_event_data 25.00 - 0.4% : _spin_unlock_irq And the length of each write to the ring buffer measured at 310ns. This patch adds a new module parameter called "write_interval" which is defaulted to 50. This is the number of writes performed between timestamps. After this patch perf top shows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local 1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next 579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit 440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id 117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock 103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data 28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday 22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq 14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc 11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday do_gettimeofday dropped from 13% usage to a mere 0.4%! (using the default 50 interval) The measurement for each timestamp went from 310ns to 210ns. That's 100ns (1/3rd) overhead that the gettimeofday call was introducing. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c25
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
index 573d3cc762c..70df73e4ff2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ static int disable_reader;
module_param(disable_reader, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_reader, "only run producer");
+static int write_iteration = 50;
+module_param(write_iteration, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(write_iteration, "# of writes between timestamp readings");
+
static int read_events;
static int kill_test;
@@ -208,15 +212,18 @@ static void ring_buffer_producer(void)
do {
struct ring_buffer_event *event;
int *entry;
-
- event = ring_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, 10);
- if (!event) {
- missed++;
- } else {
- hit++;
- entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
- *entry = smp_processor_id();
- ring_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < write_iteration; i++) {
+ event = ring_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, 10);
+ if (!event) {
+ missed++;
+ } else {
+ hit++;
+ entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
+ *entry = smp_processor_id();
+ ring_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
+ }
}
do_gettimeofday(&end_tv);