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| author | Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> | 2025-05-09 17:19:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> | 2025-05-09 17:32:15 +0000 |
| commit | c42e219942cb1325fe38160a4fd2be73c74abc0e (patch) | |
| tree | 86074562a1ce028071b311dd52ef3501b472cf93 /tools/perf/scripts/python/flamegraph.py | |
| parent | perf tests: Fix 'perf report' tests installation (diff) | |
| download | kernel-c42e219942cb1325fe38160a4fd2be73c74abc0e.tar.gz kernel-c42e219942cb1325fe38160a4fd2be73c74abc0e.zip | |
perf lock contention: Add -J/--inject-delay option
This is to slow down lock acquistion (on contention locks) deliberately.
A possible use case is to estimate impact on application performance by
optimization of kernel locking behavior. By delaying the lock it can
simulate the worse condition as a control group, and then compare with
the current behavior as a optimized condition.
The syntax is 'time@function' and the time can have unit suffix like
"us" and "ms". For example, I ran a simple test like below.
$ sudo perf lock con -abl -L tasklist_lock -- \
sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1000); do sleep 1 & done; wait'
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
92 1.18 ms 199.54 us 12.79 us ffffffff8a806080 tasklist_lock (rwlock)
The contention count was 92 and the average wait time was around 10 us.
But if I add 100 usec of delay to the tasklist_lock,
$ sudo perf lock con -abl -L tasklist_lock -J 100us@tasklist_lock -- \
sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1000); do sleep 1 & done; wait'
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
190 15.67 ms 230.10 us 82.46 us ffffffff8a806080 tasklist_lock (rwlock)
The contention count increased and the average wait time was up closed
to 100 usec. If I increase the delay even more,
$ sudo perf lock con -abl -L tasklist_lock -J 1ms@tasklist_lock -- \
sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1000); do sleep 1 & done; wait'
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
1002 2.80 s 3.01 ms 2.80 ms ffffffff8a806080 tasklist_lock (rwlock)
Now every sleep process had contention and the wait time was more than 1
msec. This is on my 4 CPU laptop so I guess one CPU has the lock while
other 3 are waiting for it mostly.
For simplicity, it only supports global locks for now.
Committer testing:
root@number:~# grep -m1 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
model name : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor
root@number:~# perf lock con -abl -L tasklist_lock -- sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1000); do sleep 1 & done; wait'
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
142 453.85 us 25.39 us 3.20 us ffffffffae808080 tasklist_lock (rwlock)
root@number:~# perf lock con -abl -L tasklist_lock -J 100us@tasklist_lock -- sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1000); do sleep 1 & done; wait'
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
1040 2.39 s 3.11 ms 2.30 ms ffffffffae808080 tasklist_lock (rwlock)
root@number:~# perf lock con -abl -L tasklist_lock -J 1ms@tasklist_lock -- sh -c 'for i in $(seq 1000); do sleep 1 & done; wait'
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
1025 24.72 s 31.01 ms 24.12 ms ffffffffae808080 tasklist_lock (rwlock)
root@number:~#
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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