When recording raw_syscalls for the entire system, e.g.,
perf record -e raw_syscalls:*,sched:sched_switch -a -- sleep 1
you end up with a negative feedback loop as perf itself calls write() fairly
often. This patch handles the problem by mmap'ing the file in chunks of 64M at
a time and copies events from the event buffers to the file avoiding write
system calls.
Before (with write syscall):
perf record -o /tmp/perf.data -e raw_syscalls:*,sched:sched_switch -a --
sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 81.843 MB /tmp/perf.data (~3575786
samples) ]
After (using mmap):
perf record -o /tmp/perf.data -e raw_syscalls:*,sched:sched_switch -a --
sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 31 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 8.203 MB /tmp/perf.data (~358388 samples)
]
In addition to perf-trace benefits using mmap lowers the overhead of
perf-record. For example,
perf stat -i -- perf record -g -o /tmp/perf.data openssl speed aes
shows a drop in time, CPU cycles, and instructions all drop by more than a
factor of 3. Jiri also ran a test that showed a big improvement.
v3: Removed use of bytes_at_mmap_start at the stat() that set it
Added user option to control the size of the mmap for writing file.
v2: Removed msync call before munmap per Jiri's suggestion
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 5 ++
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 052f7c4dc00c..5cd305eb1698 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ abort events and some memory events in precise mode on
modern Intel CPUs.
--transaction::
Record transaction flags for transaction related events.
+--out-pages=::
+ Number of pages to mmap while writing data to file (must be a power of
two).
+ Specification can be appended with unit character - B/K/M/G. The
+ size is rounded up to have nearest pages power of two value.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 15280b5e5574..3cf563eb7896 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
+/* output file mmap'ed N chunks at a time */
+#define MMAP_OUTPUT_SIZE (64*1024*1024)
+
#ifndef HAVE_ON_EXIT_SUPPORT
#ifndef ATEXIT_MAX
#define ATEXIT_MAX 32
@@ -65,6 +68,14 @@ static void __handle_on_exit_funcs(void)
struct perf_record {
struct perf_tool tool;
struct perf_record_opts opts;
+
+ /* for MMAP based file writes */
+ void *mmap_addr;
+ u64 mmap_offset; /* current location within
mmap */
+ unsigned int mmap_out_pages; /* user configurable option */
+ size_t mmap_out_size; /* size of mmap segments */
+ bool use_mmap;
+
u64 bytes_written;
struct perf_data_file file;
struct perf_evlist *evlist;
@@ -76,10 +87,68 @@ struct perf_record {
long samples;
};
+static int do_mmap_output(struct perf_record *rec, void *buf, size_t size)
+{
+ struct perf_data_file *file = &rec->file;
+ u64 remaining;
+ off_t offset;
+
+ if (rec->mmap_addr == NULL) {
+do_mmap:
+ offset = rec->session->header.data_offset + rec->bytes_written;
+ if (offset < (ssize_t) rec->mmap_out_size) {
+ rec->mmap_offset = offset;
+ offset = 0;
+ } else
+ rec->mmap_offset = 0;
+
+ /* extend file to include a new mmap segment */
+ if (ftruncate(file->fd, offset + rec->mmap_out_size) != 0) {
+ pr_err("ftruncate failed\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ rec->mmap_addr = mmap(NULL, rec->mmap_out_size,
+ PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED,
+ file->fd, offset);
+
+ if (rec->mmap_addr == MAP_FAILED) {
+ pr_err("mmap failed: %d: %s\n", errno, strerror(errno));
+ /* reset file size */
+ ftruncate(file->fd, offset);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ remaining = rec->mmap_out_size - rec->mmap_offset;
+
+ if (size > remaining) {
+ memcpy(rec->mmap_addr + rec->mmap_offset, buf, remaining);
+ rec->bytes_written += remaining;
+
+ size -= remaining;
+ buf += remaining;
+
+ munmap(rec->mmap_addr, rec->mmap_out_size);
+ goto do_mmap;
+ }
+
+ if (size) {
+ memcpy(rec->mmap_addr + rec->mmap_offset, buf, size);
+ rec->bytes_written += size;
+ rec->mmap_offset += size;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int write_output(struct perf_record *rec, void *buf, size_t size)
{
struct perf_data_file *file = &rec->file;
+ if (rec->use_mmap)
+ return do_mmap_output(rec, buf, size);
+
while (size) {
int ret = write(file->fd, buf, size);
@@ -429,6 +498,12 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc,
const char **argv)
goto out_delete_session;
}
+ if (!file->is_pipe && rec->mmap_out_size) {
+ if (rec->mmap_out_pages)
+ rec->mmap_out_size = rec->mmap_out_pages * page_size;
+ rec->use_mmap = true;
+ }
+
machine = &session->machines.host;
if (file->is_pipe) {
@@ -544,6 +619,24 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct perf_record *rec, int argc,
const char **argv)
}
}
+ if (rec->use_mmap) {
+ off_t len = rec->session->header.data_offset +
rec->bytes_written;
+ int fd = rec->file.fd;
+
+ rec->use_mmap = false;
+ munmap(rec->mmap_addr, rec->mmap_out_size);
+ rec->mmap_addr = NULL;
+
+ if (ftruncate(fd, len) != 0)
+ pr_err("ftruncate failed\n");
+
+ /*
+ * Set output pointer to end of file
+ * eg., needed for buildid processing
+ */
+ lseek(fd, len, SEEK_SET);
+ }
+
if (quiet || signr == SIGUSR1)
return 0;
@@ -805,6 +898,7 @@ static struct perf_record record = {
.uses_mmap = true,
},
},
+ .mmap_out_size = MMAP_OUTPUT_SIZE,
};
#define CALLCHAIN_HELP "setup and enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace)
recording: "
@@ -891,6 +985,9 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
"sample by weight (on special events only)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "transaction", &record.opts.sample_transaction,
"sample transaction flags (special events only)"),
+ OPT_CALLBACK(0, "out-pages", &record.mmap_out_pages, "pages",
+ "number of pages to use for output chunks.",
+ perf_evlist__parse_mmap_pages),
OPT_END()
};
--
1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)
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