android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt 8b2a5dac78 tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance
hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   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:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   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>
2009-11-11 23:38:33 -05:00
..
blktrace.c Add a tracepoint for block request remapping 2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
ftrace.c Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-10-29 09:02:20 +01:00
Kconfig trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
kmemtrace.c kmemtrace: Fix up tracer registration 2009-10-01 11:53:44 +02:00
Makefile tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
power-traces.c tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
ring_buffer.c tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() function 2009-10-24 11:07:51 +02:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps 2009-11-11 22:22:15 -05:00
trace.c Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-10-29 09:02:20 +01:00
trace.h tracing: Support multiple pids in set_pid_ftrace file 2009-10-14 08:13:53 +02:00
trace_boot.c tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers 2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
trace_branch.c tracing: user local buffer variable for trace branch tracer 2009-10-07 21:53:41 -04:00
trace_clock.c tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local 2009-11-11 23:38:33 -05:00
trace_entries.h tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
trace_event_profile.c tracing: Use free_percpu instead of kfree 2009-10-05 10:57:56 +02:00
trace_events.c Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-10-01 11:20:48 +02:00
trace_events_filter.c Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-10-13 09:24:59 +02:00
trace_export.c tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute 2009-11-02 15:47:54 +01:00
trace_functions.c tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps 2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps 2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
trace_hw_branches.c tracing: fix warning on kernel/trace/trace_branch.c andtrace_hw_branches.c 2009-10-07 21:52:03 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped 2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers 2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
trace_nop.c tracing/ftrace: make nop-tracer use polling wait for events on pipe 2009-03-23 09:22:15 +01:00
trace_output.c tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return value 2009-10-24 11:07:50 +02:00
trace_output.h tracing: consolidate code between trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c 2009-09-11 14:24:13 -04:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Remove markers 2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer 2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped 2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
trace_selftest.c tracing/function-graph-tracer: Move graph event insertion helpers in the graph tracer file 2009-08-06 07:28:06 +02:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c
trace_stack.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
trace_stat.c trace_stat: Fix missing entry in stat file 2009-08-17 11:25:09 +02:00
trace_stat.h tracing/stat: Add stat_release() callback 2009-07-10 12:14:05 +02:00
trace_syscalls.c Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-10-29 09:02:20 +01:00
trace_sysprof.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
trace_workqueue.c tracing/workqueues: Add refcnt to struct cpu_workqueue_stats 2009-07-10 12:14:07 +02:00