linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf bench: Flush stdout before starting bench suite

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Date:	Tue,  8 Jan 2013 18:39:26 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
Subject: [PATCH] perf bench: Flush stdout before starting bench suite

From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>

perf bench prints header message for bench suite before starting the
benchmark.  However if the stdout is redirected to a file and bench
suite forks child processes this (and possibly other debugging
messages too) will be repeated multiple times.

  $ perf bench sched messaging
  # Running sched/messaging benchmark...
  # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
  # 10 groups == 400 processes run

       Total time: 0.100 [sec]

  $ perf bench sched messaging > result.txt
  $ wc -l result.txt
  391

In this file, there were so many "Running sched/messaging benchmark..."
lines.  This was because stdout is converted to fully-buffered due to
the redirection and inherited child processes.  Other lines are printed
after reaping all those tasks.

So fix it by flushing stdout before starting bench suites.

Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
index cae9a5fd2ecf..afd1255a632f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ static void all_suite(struct bench_subsys *subsys)	  /* FROM HERE */
 		printf("# Running %s/%s benchmark...\n",
 		       subsys->name,
 		       suites[i].name);
+		fflush(stdout);
 
 		argv[1] = suites[i].name;
 		suites[i].fn(1, argv, NULL);
@@ -225,6 +226,7 @@ int cmd_bench(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 				printf("# Running %s/%s benchmark...\n",
 				       subsystems[i].name,
 				       subsystems[i].suites[j].name);
+			fflush(stdout);
 			status = subsystems[i].suites[j].fn(argc - 1,
 							    argv + 1, prefix);
 			goto end;
-- 
1.7.11.7

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