Re: [PATCH 0/3] tracing/perf: perf_trace_buf/perf_xxx hacks.

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 06/19, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 06/19, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > I'm probably missing something obviuos, but what are we trying to do?
>
> Say, "perf record -e sched:sched_switch -p1".
>
> Every task except /sbin/init will do perf_trace_sched_switch() and
> perf_trace_buf_prepare() + perf_trace_buf_submit for no reason(),
> it doesn't have a counter.

I did some testing under kvm, not sure these numbers actually mean
something, but still.

So, the test-case:

	int pipe1[2], pipe2[2];

	void *tfunc(void *arg)
	{
		for (;;) {
			char c;
			assert(read(pipe1[0], &c, 1) == 1);
			assert(write(pipe2[1], &c, 1) == 1);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t thr;
		int nr;

		assert(pipe(pipe1) == 0);
		assert(pipe(pipe2) == 0);

		assert(pthread_create(&thr, NULL, tfunc, NULL) == 0);

		for (nr = 0; nr < 1000 * 1000; ++nr) {
			char c;

			assert(write(pipe1[1], &c, 1) == 1);
			assert(read(pipe2[0], &c, 1) == 1);
		}

		return 0;
	}

Idle machine, "/usr/bin/time -f "%e %S %U" taskset 1 ./pf" 3 times:

	20.73 20.05 0.66
	20.68 20.04 0.63
	20.68 20.02 0.65

Now with "perf record -e sched:sched_switch -p1" running,

before 3/3:

	21.59 20.77 0.80
	21.40 20.70 0.68
	21.50 20.72 0.78

after 3/3:

	21.00 20.23 0.76
	20.89 20.19 0.69
	20.94 20.26 0.66

Oleg.