1. 10 Aug, 2021 2 commits
    • Riccardo Mancini's avatar
      perf bench: Add benchmark for evlist open/close operations · 4241eabf
      Riccardo Mancini authored
      This new benchmark finds the total time that is taken to open, mmap,
      enable, disable, munmap, close an evlist (time taken for new,
      create_maps, config, delete is not counted in).
      
      The evlist can be configured as in perf-record using the
      -a,-C,-e,-u,--per-thread,-t,-p options.
      
      The events can be duplicated in the evlist to quickly test performance
      with many events using the -n options.
      
      Furthermore, also the number of iterations used to calculate the
      statistics is customizable.
      
      Examples:
      - Open one dummy event system-wide:
      
        $ sudo ./perf bench internals evlist-open-close
          Number of cpus:       4
          Number of threads:    1
          Number of events:     1 (4 fds)
          Number of iterations: 100
          Average open-close took: 613.870 usec (+- 32.852 usec)
      
      - Open the group '{cs,cycles}' on CPU 0
      
        $ sudo ./perf bench internals evlist-open-close -e '{cs,cycles}' -C 0
          Number of cpus:       1
          Number of threads:    1
          Number of events:     2 (2 fds)
          Number of iterations: 100
          Average open-close took: 8503.220 usec (+- 252.652 usec)
      
      - Open 10 'cycles' events for user 0, calculate average over 100 runs
      
        $ sudo ./perf bench internals evlist-open-close -e cycles -n 10 -u 0 -i 100
          Number of cpus:       4
          Number of threads:    328
          Number of events:     10 (13120 fds)
          Number of iterations: 100
          Average open-close took: 180043.140 usec (+- 2295.889 usec)
      
      Committer notes:
      
      Replaced a deprecated bzero() call with designated initialized zeroing.
      
      Added some missing evlist allocation checks, one noted by Riccardo on
      the mailing list.
      
      Minor cosmetic changes (sent in private).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRiccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
      Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210809201101.277594-1-rickyman7@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      4241eabf
    • Alyssa Ross's avatar
      perf docs: Fix accidental em-dashes · f2c24eba
      Alyssa Ross authored
      " -- " is an em dash (—) in asciidoc, so all these examples that were
      supposed to be producing a literal two dashes were being misrendered.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
      Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210809153226.332545-1-hi@alyssa.isSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      f2c24eba
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