linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] sched, tracing: add to report task state in symbolic chars

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:38:07 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Ze Gao <zegao2021@...il.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org, Ze Gao <zegao@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] sched, tracing: add to report task state in
 symbolic chars

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:16:16 +0800
Ze Gao <zegao2021@...il.com> wrote:

> @@ -231,41 +253,29 @@ TRACE_EVENT(sched_switch,
>  	TP_STRUCT__entry(
>  		__array(	char,	prev_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
>  		__field(	pid_t,	prev_pid			)
> -		__field(	int,	prev_prio			)
> -		__field(	long,	prev_state			)
> +		__field(	short,	prev_prio			)
> +		__field(	int,	prev_state			)
> +		__field(	char,	prev_state_char			)
>  		__array(	char,	next_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
>  		__field(	pid_t,	next_pid			)
> -		__field(	int,	next_prio			)
> +		__field(	short,	next_prio			)
>  	),

The above adds a bunch of holes. This needs to be reordered to condense the
event, we don't want to increase it. libtraceevent will handle reordering.

The above produces:

struct {
	char	prev_comm[16];
	pid_t	prev_pid;
	short	prev_prio; <-- 2 character padding
	int	prev_state;
	char	prev_state_char;
	char	next_comm[16]; <- 3 character padding
	pid_t	next_pid;
	short	next_prio; <- 2 char padding
};

(all events are at least 4 byte aligned, and are multiple of 4 bytes in
size, thus that last short of next_prio did nothing)

The above is a total of 56 bytes (note, that is the same as the current
sched_switch event size);

What the above should be:

	TP_STRUCT__entry(
		__field(	pid_t,	prev_pid			)
		__field(	pid_t,	next_pid			)
		__field(	short,	prev_prio			)
		__field(	short,	next_prio			)
		__field(	int,	prev_state			)
		__array(	char,	prev_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
		__array(	char,	next_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
		__field(	char,	prev_state_char			)
	),


Which would be:

struct {
	pid_t	prev_pid;
	pid_t	next_pid;
	short	prev_prio;
	short	next_prio;
	int	prev_state;
	char	prev_comm[16];
	char	next_comm[16];
	char	prev_stat_char; <-- 3 characters of padding
}

which would be 52 byte. Saving us 4 bytes per event. Which is a big deal!

-- Steve