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Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:03:36 -0700 From: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@...gle.com>, David Sharp <dhsharp@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com> Subject: [RFC PATCH] tracing: Don't call wakeup() when committing the event In using syscall tracing by concurrent processes, the wakeup() that is called in the event commit function causes contention on the spin lock of the waitqueue. I enabled sys_enter_getuid and sys_exit_getuid tracepoints, and by running getuid_microbench from autotest in parallel I found that the contention causes exponential latency increase in the tracing path. The autotest binary getuid_microbench calls getuid() in a tight loop for the given number of iterations and measures the average time required to complete a single invocation of syscall. The patch here points to the problem and provides a naive solution to start the discussion. It is not intended to be a definitive solution. In the following example, the script enables the sys_enter_getuid and sys_exit_getuid tracepoints and runs the getuid_microbench in parallel with the given number of processes. The output clearly shows the latency increase caused by contentions. $ ~/getuid.sh 1 1000000 calls in 0.720974253 s (720.974253 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 2 1000000 calls in 1.166457554 s (1166.457554 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 1.168933765 s (1168.933765 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 3 1000000 calls in 1.783827516 s (1783.827516 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 1.795553270 s (1795.553270 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 1.796493376 s (1796.493376 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 4 1000000 calls in 4.483041796 s (4483.041796 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 4.484165388 s (4484.165388 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 4.484850762 s (4484.850762 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 4.485643576 s (4485.643576 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 5 1000000 calls in 6.497521653 s (6497.521653 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 6.502000236 s (6502.000236 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 6.501709115 s (6501.709115 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 6.502124100 s (6502.124100 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 6.502936358 s (6502.936358 ns/call) After the patch, the latencies scale well and are exactly as expected. $ ~/getuid.sh 1 1000000 calls in 0.626811320 s (626.811320 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 2 1000000 calls in 0.616566144 s (616.566144 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.622712754 s (622.712754 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 3 1000000 calls in 0.602886676 s (602.886676 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.612168691 s (612.168691 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.623516009 s (623.516009 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 4 1000000 calls in 0.614037455 s (614.037455 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.615070842 s (615.070842 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.615051941 s (615.051941 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.621556902 s (621.556902 ns/call) $ ~/getuid.sh 5 1000000 calls in 0.605297117 s (605.297117 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.609545095 s (609.545095 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.610305369 s (610.305369 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.614056014 s (614.056014 ns/call) 1000000 calls in 0.622048279 s (622.048279 ns/call) Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com> --- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index ee7b5a0..3eeac29 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ void ftrace_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) if (!filter_current_check_discard(buffer, sys_data->enter_event, entry, event)) - trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event, 0, 0); + trace_nowake_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event, 0, 0); } void ftrace_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ void ftrace_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) if (!filter_current_check_discard(buffer, sys_data->exit_event, entry, event)) - trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event, 0, 0); + trace_nowake_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event, 0, 0); } int reg_event_syscall_enter(struct ftrace_event_call *call) -- 1.7.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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