From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel profiles anyone?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:26:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126067216.13159.44.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431E43C8.3030309@comcast.net>
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:35 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Are there any recent kernel profiles? I think from an acedemic
> perspective it'd be nice to see some graphs and numbers nobody
> understands showing where the longest running code paths in the kernel
> occur. It might also be nice for those latency whores (*runs to the
> back and raises hand*) and those who want to increase overall
> performance and efficiency; then there'd be a map showing . . .
> something that only kernel hackers could possibly understand or care about.
There's a latency histogram option in the -rt patch set. You can pipe
the output through gnuplot and get some cool graphs. Then you can
use /proc/latency_trace to try and guess what code paths the peaks on
the graphs correspond to. The timer interrupt will be the biggest peak,
around 23 usecs last time I checked.
I haven't done it lately so it would be interesting to see the current
graphs. Someone could make a really good presentation out of it at some
kernel development conference.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-07 1:35 Kernel profiles anyone? John Richard Moser
2005-09-07 4:26 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-09-07 11:32 ` Neil Horman
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