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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>2015-10-02 05:04:34 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-10-02 17:07:55 -0300
commit19afd10410957b1c808c2c49a88e6dd8b23aa894 (patch)
tree7c00b3eb48b51e28c3d80b56bdd9c2e6066a4b1b /tools/vm
parent9f065194e2a505bb6fd23946b410a0036e9de2ca (diff)
perf stat: Reduce min --interval-print to 10ms
The --interval-print parameter was limited to 100ms. However, for example, 10ms is required to do sophisticated bandwidth analysis using uncore events. The test shows that the overhead of the system-wide uncore monitoring with 10ms interval is only ~2%. So this patch reduces the minimal interval-print allowd to 10ms. But 10ms may not work well for all cases. For example, when the cpus/threads number is very large, for system-wide core event monitoring the overhead could be high. To handle this issue, a warning will be displayed when the interval-print is set between 10ms to 100ms. So users can make a decision according to their specific cases. # perf stat -e uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ -a --interval-print 10 -- sleep 1 print interval < 100ms. The overhead percentage could be high in some cases. Please proceed with caution. # time counts unit events 0.010200451 0.10 MiB uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ 0.020475117 0.02 MiB uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ 0.030692800 0.01 MiB uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ 0.040948161 0.02 MiB uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ 0.051159564 0.00 MiB uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443776674-42511-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com [ Added warning about overhead when using sub 100ms intervals to the man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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