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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/6] perf lock: Add contention subcommand (v1)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:51:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YupFEkzCDxpFUyeD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220721043644.153718-1-namhyung@kernel.org>


* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> It's to add a new subcommand 'contention' (shortly 'con') to perf lock.
> 
> The new subcommand is to handle the new lock:contention_{begin,end}
> tracepoints and shows lock type and caller address like below:
> 
>   $ perf lock contention
>    contended   total wait     max wait     avg wait         type   caller
> 
>          238      1.41 ms     29.20 us      5.94 us     spinlock   update_blocked_averages+0x4c
>            1    902.08 us    902.08 us    902.08 us      rwsem:R   do_user_addr_fault+0x1dd
>           81    330.30 us     17.24 us      4.08 us     spinlock   _nohz_idle_balance+0x172
>            2     89.54 us     61.26 us     44.77 us     spinlock   do_anonymous_page+0x16d
>           24     78.36 us     12.27 us      3.27 us        mutex   pipe_read+0x56
>            2     71.58 us     59.56 us     35.79 us     spinlock   __handle_mm_fault+0x6aa
>            6     25.68 us      6.89 us      4.28 us     spinlock   do_idle+0x28d
>            1     18.46 us     18.46 us     18.46 us      rtmutex   exec_fw_cmd+0x21b
>            3     15.25 us      6.26 us      5.08 us     spinlock   tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x2c
>    ...

Wouldn't it also be useful to display a lock contention percentage value, 
the ratio of fastpath vs. contended/wait events?

That's usually the first-approximation metric to see how contended 
different locks are, and the average wait time quantifies it.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-03  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21  4:36 [PATCHSET 0/6] perf lock: Add contention subcommand (v1) Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21  4:36 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf lock: Fix a copy-n-paste bug Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21 19:09   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-07-21  4:36 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf lock: Add flags field in the lock_stat Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21  4:36 ` [PATCH 3/6] perf lock: Add lock aggregation enum Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21 19:02   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-07-21 19:05     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-07-25 16:56       ` Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21  4:36 ` [PATCH 4/6] perf lock: Add 'contention' subcommand Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21  4:36 ` [PATCH 5/6] perf lock: Add -k and -F options to " Namhyung Kim
2022-07-21  4:36 ` [PATCH 6/6] perf lock: Support -t option for " Namhyung Kim
2022-08-03  9:51 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2022-08-04  4:55   ` [PATCHSET 0/6] perf lock: Add contention subcommand (v1) Namhyung Kim
2022-08-04  8:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2022-08-04 21:02       ` Namhyung Kim

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