linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] perf sched: Introduce timehist command

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Message-ID: <5297F4D6.3070408@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:58:46 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
CC:	Arnaldo Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] perf sched: Introduce timehist command

On 11/28/13, 5:48 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Do we really need to look up the callchain to find out an idle thread?
>
>    $ perf sched script | grep swapper | head
>           swapper     0 [001] 4294177.326996: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=Xorg next_pid=1094 next_prio=120
>           swapper     0 [010] 4294177.327019: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/10 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=13902 next_prio=120
>              perf 13901 [002] 4294177.327074: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=13901 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/2 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
>           swapper     0 [004] 4294177.327096: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/4 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=synergys next_pid=1521 next_prio=120
>           swapper     0 [000] 4294177.327102: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=gnome-terminal next_pid=2392 next_prio=120
>              Xorg  1094 [001] 4294177.327112: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=Xorg prev_pid=1094 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/1 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
>           swapper     0 [007] 4294177.327122: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/7 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=13902 next_prio=120
>      migration/10    58 [010] 4294177.327124: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/10 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/10 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
>          synergys  1521 [004] 4294177.327144: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=synergys prev_pid=1521 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/4 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
>    gnome-terminal  2392 [000] 4294177.327286: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=gnome-terminal prev_pid=2392 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
>
> It seems every idle/swapper thread for each cpu has a pid of 0.

The command was developed using context-switch events. Try the next 
patch and use:

perf record -e cs -c 1 -ag
perf sched timehist

David
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