linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf sched: Introduce timehist command

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Message-ID: <529C9A56.4050306@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 02 Dec 2013 07:33:58 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@....fi>, acme@...stprotocols.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	namhyung@...nel.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 1/2] perf sched: Introduce timehist command - v2

On 12/2/13, 2:33 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 02:23 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>> 'perf sched timehist' provides an analysis of scheduling events.
>>
>> Example usage:
>>      perf sched record -- sleep 1
>>      perf sched timehist
>>
>> By default it shows the individual schedule events, including the time
>> between
>> sched-in events for the task, the task scheduling delay (time between
>> wakeup
>> and actually running) and run time for the task:
>>
>>             time cpu  task name[tid/pid]    b/n time sch delay  run time
>>    ------------- ---- -------------------- --------- --------- ---------
>>     79371.874569 [11] gcc[31949]               0.014     0.000     1.148
>>     79371.874591 [10] gcc[31951]               0.000     0.000     0.024
>>     79371.874603 [10] migration/10[59]         3.350     0.004     0.011
>>     79371.874604 [11] <idle>                   1.148     0.000     0.035
>>     79371.874723 [05] <idle>                   0.016     0.000     1.383
>>     79371.874746 [05] gcc[31949]               0.153     0.078     0.022
>
> What does "b/n time" mean?

Time between schedule-in events.

>
> I'm seeing rather large "sch delay" numbers on Fedora 19's default
> kernel that seem like a data error of some sort:
>
>      4500.663117 [02] fix_client[7216]         0.007
> 18446744073708.033     1.786

hmm.... it means tprev < t_ready-to-run and both are non-zero. ie., 
wakeup time is after the time of the schedule event prior to fix_client 
getting scheduled. Is this a multi-socket box? I can add a sanity check 
and set to 0 if it happens.

>
> Scheduling delays don't seem to be part of "-s" summary output. Why?

Recently added feature to show the scheduling delay. At this point I 
have too many features locally and need to get the basic command into 
perf before adding more -- like stats for scheduling delay.

David
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