linux/tools
Tony Jones 84e5d89a77 perf scripts python: Add new compaction-times script
This patch creates a new script (compaction-times) to report time
spent in mm compaction. It is possible to report times in nanoseconds
(default) or microseconds (-u).

The option -p will break down results by process id, -pv will further
decompose by each compaction entry/exit.

For each compaction entry/exit what is reported is controlled by the
options:

  -t   report only timing
  -m   report migration stats
  -ms  report migration scanner stats
  -fs  report free scanner stats

The default is to report all.

Entries may be further filtered by pid, pid-range or comm (regex).

The script is useful when analysing workloads that compact memory. The
most common example will be THP allocations on systems with a lot of
uptime that has fragmented memory.

This is an example of using the script to analyse a thpscale from
mmtests which deliberately fragments memory and allocates THP in 4
separate threads

  # Recording step, one of the following;
  $ perf record -e 'compaction:mm_compaction_*' ./workload
  # or:
  $ perf script record compaction-times

  # Reporting: basic
  total: 2444505743ns migration: moved=357738 failed=39275
  free_scanner: scanned=2705578 isolated=387875
  migration_scanner: scanned=414426 isolated=397013

  # Reporting: Per task stall times
  $ perf script report compaction-times -- -t -p
  total: 2444505743ns
  6384[thpscale]: 740800017ns
  6385[thpscale]: 274119512ns
  6386[thpscale]: 832961337ns
  6383[thpscale]: 596624877ns

  # Reporting: Per-compaction attempts for task 6385
  $ perf script report compaction-times -- -m -pv 6385
  total: 274119512ns migration: moved=14893 failed=24285
  6385[thpscale]: 274119512ns migration: moved=14893 failed=24285
  6385[thpscale].1: 3033277ns migration: moved=511 failed=1
  6385[thpscale].2: 9592094ns migration: moved=1524 failed=12
  6385[thpscale].3: 2495587ns migration: moved=512 failed=0
  6385[thpscale].4: 2561766ns migration: moved=512 failed=0
  6385[thpscale].5: 2523521ns migration: moved=512 failed=0
  ..... output continues ...

Changes since v1:
- report stats for isolate_migratepages and isolate_freepages
  (Vlastimil Babka)
- refactor code to achieve above
- add help text
- output to stdout/stderr explicitly

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439840932-8933-1-git-send-email-tonyj@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-08-28 14:53:40 -03:00
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arch tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
build tools build: Allow duplicate objects in the object list 2015-08-26 10:34:58 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv Drivers: hv: fcopy: full handshake support 2015-05-24 12:17:42 -07:00
iio tools:iio:iio_utils: pass strings as const 2015-06-01 08:40:26 +01:00
include tools: Copy rbtree_augmented.h from the kernel 2015-07-05 22:59:05 -03:00
laptop/freefall Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ 2015-06-08 16:42:07 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: don't use legacy definitions for net device in example launcher. 2015-02-13 17:15:55 +10:30
lib tools lib traceeveent: Allow for negative numbers in print format 2015-08-28 11:47:40 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: fix segfault on disabled debugging log output 2015-05-27 00:24:10 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf scripts python: Add new compaction-times script 2015-08-28 14:53:40 -03:00
power Additional ACPICA material for v4.2-rc1 2015-07-02 17:11:28 -07:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing linux-kselftest-4.2-rc5 2015-07-28 10:09:53 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fixed the 'make install' command 2015-05-09 13:36:58 +08:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb tools: ffs-aio-example: use endpoint addresses from descriptors 2015-01-15 09:41:49 -06:00
virtio tools/virtio: add virtio 1.0 in vringh_test 2014-12-15 23:49:22 +02:00
vm tools: Fix tools/vm build 2015-05-12 18:11:06 -03:00
Makefile Staging driver patches for 4.2-rc1 2015-06-26 15:46:08 -07:00