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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] perf tools: Optimize sample parsing for ordered events
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:40:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171031094053.iblfii2hzz7keujh@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171031092947.19410-6-jolsa@kernel.org>


* Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:

> Currently when using ordered events we parse the sample
> twice (the perf_evlist__parse_sample function). Once
> before we queue the sample for sorting:
> 
>   perf_session__process_event
>     perf_evlist__parse_sample(sample)
>     perf_session__queue_event(sample.time)
> 
> And then when we deliver the sorted sample:
> 
>   ordered_events__deliver_event
>     perf_evlist__parse_sample
>     perf_session__deliver_event
> 
> We can skip the initial full sample parsing by using
> perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp function, which
> got introduced earlier. The new path looks like:
> 
>   perf_session__process_event
>     perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp
>     perf_session__queue_event
> 
>   ordered_events__deliver_event
>     perf_session__deliver_event
>       perf_evlist__parse_sample
> 
> It saves some instructions and is slightly faster:
> 
> Before:
>  Performance counter stats for './perf.old report --stdio' (5 runs):
> 
>     64,396,007,225      cycles:u                                                      ( +-  0.97% )
>    105,882,112,735      instructions:u            #    1.64  insn per cycle           ( +-  0.00% )
> 
>       21.618103465 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  1.12% )
> 
> After:
>  Performance counter stats for './perf report --stdio' (5 runs):
> 
>     60,567,807,182      cycles:u                                                      ( +-  0.40% )
>    104,853,333,514      instructions:u            #    1.73  insn per cycle           ( +-  0.00% )
> 
>       20.168895243 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.32% )

That's a 7% speedup, not bad!

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-31  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31  9:29 [PATCH 0/7] perf tools: Small sample parsing speedup Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 1/7] perf tools: Reset cursor arg instead of callchain_cursor Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 2/7] perf tools: Centralize perf_sample initialization Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 3/7] perf tools: Add perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp function Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] perf tools: Pass timestamp arg in perf_session__queue_event Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 5/7] perf tools: Optimize sample parsing for ordered events Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:40   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 6/7] perf tools: Remove perf_tool from event_op2 Jiri Olsa
2017-10-31  9:29 ` [PATCH 7/7] perf tools: Remove perf_tool from event_op3 Jiri Olsa
2017-11-01  8:39 ` [PATCH 0/7] perf tools: Small sample parsing speedup Namhyung Kim
2017-11-01 11:50   ` Jiri Olsa

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