Hi Aditya,
On 6/18/24 8:55 AM, Aditya Kurdunkar via lttng-dev wrote:
Hello,
Please bear with me if this is a naive question. I am working on an
embedded ARM chip (1GB ram, 2CPUs) where I want to collect trace events
for a long duration of time. From the research that I have done (mostly
reading papers on LTTng tracing, conference talks and documentation) I
have seen it mentioned that for ARM the overhead is greater because the
system call to get the CPU is quite slow. In my use case I am okay with
not having this information. The current benchmarks show a 3
microsecond overhead of a single tracepoint on ARM in comparison to
Is there a specific detail that leads you to believe that getcpu is
taking the bulk of the time?
Are the performance of your embedded arm chip and the x86_64 system you
are comparing at all similar otherwise?
Regardless I think this comparison may misleading. It sounds like want
you want to measure is the time + resources required to run your
application with and without tracing on the same platform, rather than
comparing two dissimilar platforms?
Please note that the UST overhead (e.g. spawn an application, launch the
UST thread, connect to the sessiond, transfer configuration and buffer
pointers) is comparatively large for a single event, rather than over
the course of a 'long' running application.
The default behaviour is to block main program execution until the
registration completes or times out. In many cases you may want to
disable that timeout for quicker startup at the cost of potentially
losing event(s) right at the beginning. C.f. LTTNG_UST_REGISTER_TIMEOUT
in https://lttng.org/man/3/lttng-ust/v2.13/#doc-_environment_variables
150ns on a x86 machine. Hence, my question is: Is it possible to disable
recording the CPU somehow? Any suggestions for decreasing the overhead
other than this are welcome.
It is always enabled c.f.
https://lttng.org/man/3/lttng-ust/v2.13/#doc-_context_information
However, I suppose you could try to use a custom getcpu plugin, e.g.
https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/master/doc/examples/getcpu-override
to return a dummy value.
If you detailed your tracing and benchmark setup it might be possible to
provide additional guidance.
Regards,
Aditya
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thanks,
kienan
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