From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/10] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:37:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190313143704.GC6676@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb018a36-5249-ca6a-8e16-6afac442bae5@linux.intel.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:35:24AM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>
> The patch set implements runtime trace compression (-z option) in
> record mode and trace auto decompression in report and inject modes.
> Streaming Zstandard (Zstd) API (zstd) is used for compression and
> decompression of data that come from kernel mmaped data buffers.
>
> Usage of implemented -z,--compression_level=n option provides ~3-5x
> avg. trace file size reduction on variety of tested workloads what
> saves storage space on larger server systems where trace file size
> can easily reach several tens or even hundreds of GiBs, especially
> when profiling with dwarf-based stacks and tracing of context switches.
> Implemented -f,--mmap-flush option can be used to avoid compressing
> every single byte of data and increase compression ratio at the same
> time lowering tool runtime overhead. Default option value is 1 what
> is equal to the current perf record implementation. The option is
> independent from -z setting and doesn't vary with compression level:
>
> $ tools/perf/perf record -z 1 -e cycles -- matrix.gcc
> $ tools/perf/perf record --aio=1 -z 1 -e cycles -- matrix.gcc
> $ tools/perf/perf record -z 1 -f 1024 -e cycles -- matrix.gcc
> $ tools/perf/perf record --aio=1 -z 1 -f 1024 -e cycles -- matrix.gcc
please make the 'z' option to choose some default value,
so it's possible just to run:
perf record -z ...
to get comrpessed data.. not sure which strategy to use,
probably the fastest '-z 1' as default
with some warning about using that default value perhaps
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-13 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-28 8:35 [PATCH v4 0/10] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 8:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] feature: implement libzstd check, LIBZSTD_DIR and NO_LIBZSTD defines Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 18:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28 20:11 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-01 6:52 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:00 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] perf record: implement -f,--mmap-flush=<threshold> option Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 18:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28 20:19 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:02 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] perf session: define bytes_transferred and bytes_compressed metrics Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 18:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28 20:23 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:03 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] perf record: implement COMPRESSED event record and its attributes Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:08 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] perf mmap: implement dedicated memory buffer for data compression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:09 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] perf util: introduce Zstd based streaming compression API Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] perf record: implement -z,--compression_level=n option and compression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:16 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] perf report: implement record trace decompression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] perf inject: enable COMPRESSED records decompression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:18 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] perf tests: implement Zstd comp/decomp integration test Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2019-03-13 15:00 ` [PATCH v4 0/10] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37 ` Jiri Olsa
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