Hi,

On 26 September 2014 07:50, Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:45:57 +0200, Jean Pihet wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Here are the test results on ARMv7 for the 2 patches. The speedup is
>> about x2.1 for identical unwinding output data.
>>
>> 'perf record --call-graph dwarf -- stress --cpu 2 --io 2 --vm 2
>> --timeout 10s' generates a 365 MB perf.data file.
>>
>> time perf.orig report --sort symbol --call-graph --stdio 2&>1 > /dev/null
>> average on 3 runs
>> real    36.736
>> user   14.79
>> sys    21.91
>>
>> time perf.libunwind.speedup report --sort symbol --call-graph --stdio
>> 2&>1 > /dev/null
>> average on 3 runs
>> real    17.41        x2.11
>> user     6.42        x2.3
>> sys    10.97        x2
>>
>> So the patches definitely speedup the unwinding.
>> FWIW: Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pi...@linaro.org>
>
> Thanks for your test!
>
> Btw, have you checked the difference of the output before and after the
> caching?
Yes the output is identical (as stated here above).

>
>>
>> For info unwinding using libdw is about 5x faster:
>> time perf.libdw.speedup report --sort symbol --call-graph --stdio 2&>1
>>> /dev/null
>> real    0m3.484s
>> user    0m2.360s
>> sys    0m1.070s
>
> Wow, it's pretty nice.  I'll take a look at the libdw unwinding later.
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung

Thanks for the patches!
Jean
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