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| author | Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> | 2013-10-18 10:38:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-10-21 17:36:25 -0300 |
| commit | 91e95617429cb272fd908b1928a1915b37b9655f (patch) | |
| tree | 630cd19ff34cf210a03924e92c711d6c51076e2d /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | |
| parent | cc9784bd9fa9d8e27fdea61142398cb85ce401a8 (diff) | |
perf report: Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan
When callgraph data was included in the perf data file, it may take a
long time to scan all those data and merge them together especially if
the stored callchains are long and the perf data file itself is large,
like a Gbyte or so.
The callchain stack is currently limited to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127).
This is a large value. Usually the callgraph data that developers are
most interested in are the first few levels, the rests are usually not
looked at.
This patch adds a new --max-stack option to perf-report to limit the
depth of callchain stack data to look at to reduce the time it takes for
perf-report to finish its processing. It trades the presence of trailing
stack information with faster speed.
The following table shows the elapsed time of doing perf-report on a
perf.data file of size 985,531,828 bytes.
--max_stack Elapsed Time Output data size
----------- ------------ ----------------
not set 88.0s 124,422,651
64 87.5s 116,303,213
32 87.2s 112,023,804
16 86.6s 94,326,380
8 59.9s 33,697,248
4 40.7s 10,116,637
-g none 27.1s 2,555,810
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382107129-2010-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index be5ad87b6c3..10a27987125 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -141,6 +141,14 @@ OPTIONS Default: fractal,0.5,callee,function. +--max-stack:: + Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything + beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off + between information loss and faster processing especially for + workloads that can have a very long callchain stack. + + Default: 127 + -G:: --inverted:: alias for inverted caller based call graph. |