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diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 8639819f6ce..d4409356f40 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -535,6 +535,36 @@ config MMIOTRACE_TEST Say N, unless you absolutely know what you are doing. +config TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK + bool "Add tracepoint that benchmarks tracepoints" + help + This option creates the tracepoint "benchmark:benchmark_event". + When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that + goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks + run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time + it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that + data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint + will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint. + The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes + to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of + "START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first + write which is not added to the rest of the calculations. + + As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because + we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already. + + An example of the output: + + START + first=3672 [COLD CACHED] + last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712 + last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337 + last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064 + last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411 + last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389 + last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666 + + config RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK tristate "Ring buffer benchmark stress tester" depends on RING_BUFFER |