On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:05:59PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> When recording raw_syscalls for the entire system, e.g.,
> perf record -e raw_syscalls:*,sched:sched_switch -a -- sleep 1
>
> you end up with a negative feedback loop as perf itself calls
> write() fairly often. This patch mmap's the file in chunks of 64M
> at a time and copies events from the event buffers to the file
> avoiding write system calls.
moved processing into userspace:
17.24% -17.10% libpthread-2.15.so [.] __write_nocancel
...
0.07% +0.64% libc-2.15.so [.] __memcpy_sse2
0.02% +51.84% libc-2.15.so [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back
0.01% +0.34% libc-2.15.so [.] __mempcpy_sse2
...
>
> Before (with write syscall):
>
> perf record -o /tmp/perf.data -e raw_syscalls:*,sched:sched_switch -a --
> sleep 1
> [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 81.843 MB /tmp/perf.data (~3575786 samples)
> ]
>
> After (using mmap):
>
> perf record -o /tmp/perf.data -e raw_syscalls:*,sched:sched_switch -a --
> sleep 1
> [ perf record: Woken up 31 times to write data ]
^^^^^^^^
but it's still faster, since we finally get perf a chance to sleep ;-)
new time:
real 0m30.392s
user 0m0.041s
sys 0m0.389s
old time:
real 0m32.235s
user 0m3.080s
sys 0m14.444s
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 8.203 MB /tmp/perf.data (~358388 samples) ]
>
> Before I get too far down this path I wanted to get comments on the approach.
I think it's worthwhile doing this
jirka
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