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Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance
hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see:
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PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local
1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next
579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit
440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id
117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock
103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data
28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday
22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq
14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc
11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday
Where trace_clock_local is 40% of the tracing, and the time for recording
a trace according to ring_buffer_benchmark is 210ns. After converting
the interrupts to preemption disabling we have from perf top:
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PerfTop: 1084 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
1277.00 - 16.8% : native_read_tsc
1148.00 - 15.1% : rb_reserve_next_event
896.00 - 11.8% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
688.00 - 9.1% : __rb_reserve_next
664.00 - 8.8% : rb_end_commit
563.00 - 7.4% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
508.00 - 6.7% : _spin_unlock_irq
365.00 - 4.8% : debug_smp_processor_id
321.00 - 4.2% : trace_clock_local
303.00 - 4.0% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
273.00 - 3.6% : native_sched_clock
122.00 - 1.6% : trace_recursive_unlock
113.00 - 1.5% : sched_clock
101.00 - 1.3% : ring_buffer_event_data
53.00 - 0.7% : tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick
Where trace_clock_local drops from 40% to only taking 4% of the total time.
The trace time also goes from 210ns down to 179ns (31ns).
I talked with Peter Zijlstra about the impact that sched_clock may have
without having interrupts disabled, and he told me that if a timer interrupt
comes in, sched_clock may report a wrong time.
Balancing a seldom incorrect timestamp with a 15% performance boost, I'll
take the performance boost.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
115 lines
2.7 KiB
C
115 lines
2.7 KiB
C
/*
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* tracing clocks
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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*
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* Implements 3 trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
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* tradeoffs:
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*
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* - local: CPU-local trace clock
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* - medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
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* - global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
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*
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* Tracer plugins will chose a default from these clocks.
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*/
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#include <linux/spinlock.h>
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#include <linux/hardirq.h>
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#include <linux/module.h>
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#include <linux/percpu.h>
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#include <linux/sched.h>
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#include <linux/ktime.h>
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#include <linux/trace_clock.h>
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#include "trace.h"
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/*
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* trace_clock_local(): the simplest and least coherent tracing clock.
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*
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* Useful for tracing that does not cross to other CPUs nor
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* does it go through idle events.
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*/
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u64 notrace trace_clock_local(void)
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{
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u64 clock;
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int resched;
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/*
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* sched_clock() is an architecture implemented, fast, scalable,
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* lockless clock. It is not guaranteed to be coherent across
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* CPUs, nor across CPU idle events.
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*/
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resched = ftrace_preempt_disable();
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clock = sched_clock();
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ftrace_preempt_enable(resched);
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return clock;
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}
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/*
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* trace_clock(): 'inbetween' trace clock. Not completely serialized,
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* but not completely incorrect when crossing CPUs either.
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*
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* This is based on cpu_clock(), which will allow at most ~1 jiffy of
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* jitter between CPUs. So it's a pretty scalable clock, but there
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* can be offsets in the trace data.
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*/
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u64 notrace trace_clock(void)
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{
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return cpu_clock(raw_smp_processor_id());
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}
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/*
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* trace_clock_global(): special globally coherent trace clock
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*
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* It has higher overhead than the other trace clocks but is still
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* an order of magnitude faster than GTOD derived hardware clocks.
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*
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* Used by plugins that need globally coherent timestamps.
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*/
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/* keep prev_time and lock in the same cacheline. */
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static struct {
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u64 prev_time;
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raw_spinlock_t lock;
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} trace_clock_struct ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp =
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{
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.lock = (raw_spinlock_t)__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED,
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};
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u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void)
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{
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unsigned long flags;
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int this_cpu;
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u64 now;
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raw_local_irq_save(flags);
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this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
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now = cpu_clock(this_cpu);
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/*
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* If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and return the
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* cpu_clock() time:
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*/
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if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
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goto out;
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__raw_spin_lock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
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/*
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* TODO: if this happens often then maybe we should reset
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* my_scd->clock to prev_time+1, to make sure
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* we start ticking with the local clock from now on?
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*/
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if ((s64)(now - trace_clock_struct.prev_time) < 0)
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now = trace_clock_struct.prev_time + 1;
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trace_clock_struct.prev_time = now;
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__raw_spin_unlock(&trace_clock_struct.lock);
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out:
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raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
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return now;
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}
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