Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] perf report/script: Support percent and multiple range in --time option

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:13:40PM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
> v7:
> ---
> v7 doesn't have functional change. The update is only:

Thanks for working on this, will try and get this processed in my next
round.

- Arnaldo
 
> 1. Rebase to latest perf/core branch
> 
> 2. Update patch description according to Arnaldo's comments.
> 
> Impacted patch:
> ---------------
>   perf header: Record first sample time and last sample time in perf file header
>   perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
> 
> v6:
> ---
> 1. Create a new option "--timestamp-boundary" in perf record.
>    
>    Currently '--buildid-all' is not enabled by default. So the walking
>    on all samples is the default operation. There is no big overhead
>    to calculate the timestamp boundary in process_sample_event handler
>    once we already go through all samples. So the timestamp boundary
>    calculation is enabled by default when '--buildid-all' is not enabled.
> 
>    While if '--buildid-all' is enabled, we creates a new option
>    "--timestamp-boundary" for user to decide if it enables the
>    timestamp boundary calculation.
> 
>    Impacted patch:
>    ---------------
>    perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
> 
> 2. Fix the merge issue with the latest perf/core branch.
>    No functional changes.
> 
>    Impacted patch:
>    ---------------
>    perf report: support time percent and multiple time ranges
>    perf script: support time percent and multiple time ranges
> 
> v5:
> ---
> 1. There is an issue that the sample walking can only work when
>    '--buildid-all' is not enabled. So we need to let the walking
>    be able to work even if '--buildid-all' is enabled and let the
>    processing skips the dso hit marking for this case.
> 
> 2. Check if first/last sample time is recorded in perf data file.
>    If it's not recorded, return error message to user.
> 
> Patched modified in v5:
>    perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
>    perf report: support time percent and multiple time ranges
>    perf script: support time percent and multiple time ranges
> 
> v4:
> ---
> 1. Use perf script time style for timestamp printing. Also add with
>    the printing of sample duration. For example:
> 
>    perf report --header
> 
>    time of first sample : 5276531.323099
>    time of last sample : 5276555.345625
>    sample duration :  24022.526 ms
> 
> 2. Fix an invalid time string issue. For example,
> 
>    perf script --time 10%/10x12321xsdfdasfdsafdsafdsa
> 
>    Now in code, it uses strtol to replace atoi.
> 
> 3. Remove perf_time__skip_sample, only uses perf_time__ranges_skip_sample
>    in perf report/perf script.
> 
> v3:
> ---
> 1. Move the definitions of first_sample_time/last_sample_time from
>    perf_session and struct record to perf_evlist and update the
>    related code.
> 
> v2:
> ---
> 1. This patch creates a new header feature type HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME and related
>    ops. Save the first sample time and the last sample time to the feature
>    section in perf file header.
> 
> 2. Add checking for last element in time range.
> 
>    For example, select the first and second 10% time slices.
>    perf report --time 10%/1,10%/2
> 
>    Note that now it includes the last element in [10%, 20%] but it
>    doesn't include the last element in [0, 10%). It's to avoid
>    the overlap.
> 
> Following patches are changed:
> 
>    perf header: Record first sample time and last sample time in perf file header
>    perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
>    perf util: Create function to perform multiple time range checking
> 
> v1: initial post
> ----------------
> 
> Current perf report/script/... have a --time option to limit the time
> range of output. But it only supports the absolute time.
> 
> The patch series extend this option to let it support percent of time
> and support the multiple time ranges.
> 
> For example:
> 
> 1. Select the second 10% time slice
>    perf report --time 10%/2
> 
> 2. Select from 0% to 10% time slice
>    perf report --time 0%-10%
> 
> It also support the multiple time ranges.
> 
> 3. Select the first and second 10% time slices
>    perf report --time 10%/1,10%/2
> 
> 4. Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices
>    perf report --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
> 
> Jin Yao (6):
>   perf header: Record first sample time and last sample time in perf
>     file header
>   perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
>   perf util: Create function to parse time percent
>   perf util: Create function to perform multiple time range checking
>   perf report: support time percent and multiple time ranges
>   perf script: support time percent and multiple time ranges
> 
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt           |   3 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt           |  16 ++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt           |  16 ++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt |   4 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                        |  18 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                        |  31 ++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-script.c                        |  34 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                           |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                           |  60 ++++++
>  tools/perf/util/header.h                           |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/time-utils.c                       | 233 +++++++++++++++++++--
>  tools/perf/util/time-utils.h                       |   6 +
>  12 files changed, 398 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
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