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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:43:55 +0800
From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@...ux.ibm.com>,
Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
Kevin Nomura <nomurak@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Do not delay the workload with --delay
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:08:20PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The -D/--delay option is to delay the measure after the program starts.
> But the current code goes to sleep before starting the program so the
> program is delayed too. This is not the intention, let's fix it.
>
> Before:
>
> $ time sudo ./perf stat -a -e cycles -D 3000 sleep 4
> Events disabled
> Events enabled
>
> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
>
> 4,326,949,337 cycles
>
> 4.007494118 seconds time elapsed
>
> real 0m7.474s
> user 0m0.356s
> sys 0m0.120s
>
> It ran the workload for 4 seconds and gave the 3 second delay. So it
> should skip the first 3 second and measure the last 1 second only. But
> as you can see, it delays 3 seconds and ran the workload after that for
> 4 seconds. So the total time (real) was 7 seconds.
>
> After:
>
> $ time sudo ./perf stat -a -e cycles -D 3000 sleep 4
> Events disabled
> Events enabled
>
> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
>
> 1,063,551,013 cycles
>
> 1.002769510 seconds time elapsed
>
> real 0m4.484s
> user 0m0.385s
> sys 0m0.086s
>
> The bug was introduced when it changed enablement of system-wide events
> with a command line workload. But it should've considered the initial
> delay case. The code was reworked since then (in bb8bc52e7578) so I'm
> afraid it won't be applied cleanly.
>
> Fixes: d0a0a511493d ("perf stat: Fix forked applications enablement of counters")
> Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Kevin Nomura <nomurak@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
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