Re: [RFC PATCH 27/30] Code tagging based latency tracking

Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-01T07:11:29Z

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:49:16PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
>
> This adds the ability to easily instrument code for measuring latency.
> To use, add the following to calls to your code, at the start and end of
> the event you wish to measure:
>
> code_tag_time_stats_start(start_time);
> code_tag_time_stats_finish(start_time);
>
> Stastistics will then show up in debugfs under
> /sys/kernel/debug/time_stats, listed by file and line number.
>
> Stastics measured include weighted averages of frequency, duration, max
> duration, as well as quantiles.
>
> This patch also instruments all calls to init_wait and finish_wait,
> which includes all calls to wait_event. Example debugfs output:

How can't you do this with a simple eBPF script on top of
trace_sched_stat_* and friends?