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authorKirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>2011-01-12 17:59:36 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-01-13 11:38:44 -0200
commitacac03fa15a8684bb60489ed87b5aae5258c0838 (patch)
treeabaeaadf91bd4191d62904509815bcc372c42ba3 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent9710118bd4e7f3406865171cb9b9c94547c1c2f9 (diff)
perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
Sometimes there is a need to use perf in "live-log" mode. The problem is, for seldom events, actual info output is largely delayed because perf-record reads sample data in whole pages. So for such scenarious, add flag for perf-record to go in "nodelay" mode. To track e.g. what's going on in icmp_rcv while ping is running Use it with something like this: (1) $ perf probe -L icmp_rcv | grep -U8 '^ *43\>' goto error; } 38 if (!pskb_pull(skb, sizeof(*icmph))) goto error; icmph = icmp_hdr(skb); 43 ICMPMSGIN_INC_STATS_BH(net, icmph->type); /* * 18 is the highest 'known' ICMP type. Anything else is a mystery * * RFC 1122: 3.2.2 Unknown ICMP messages types MUST be silently * discarded. */ 50 if (icmph->type > NR_ICMP_TYPES) goto error; $ perf probe icmp_rcv:43 'type=icmph->type' (2) $ cat trace-icmp.py [...] def trace_begin(): print "in trace_begin" def trace_end(): print "in trace_end" def probe__icmp_rcv(event_name, context, common_cpu, common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm, __probe_ip, type): print_header(event_name, common_cpu, common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm) print "__probe_ip=%u, type=%u\n" % \ (__probe_ip, type), [...] (3) $ perf record -a -D -e probe:icmp_rcv -o - | \ perf script -i - -s trace-icmp.py Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for pointing how to do it. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20110112140613.GA11698@tugrik.mns.mnsspb.ru> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ OPTIONS
-r::
--realtime=::
Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.
+-D::
+--no-delay::
+ Collect data without buffering.
-A::
--append::
Append to the output file to do incremental profiling.