Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf tools: add test for reading object code

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Sat Aug 03 2013 - 09:47:57 EST


On 31/07/2013 8:43 p.m., Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:11:13AM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
On 29/07/2013 9:28 a.m., Namhyung Kim wrote:
+
+static int do_test_code_reading(void)
+{
+ struct machines machines;
+ struct machine *machine;
+ struct thread *thread;
+ struct perf_record_opts opts = {
+ .mmap_pages = UINT_MAX,
+ .user_freq = UINT_MAX,
+ .user_interval = ULLONG_MAX,
+ .freq = 40000,

Is it intended to use the freq of 40000 instead of 4000 (default)?

Yes. The "workload" is small so a higher sampling rate is preferable.

But preferably one that is less than:

[root@zoo ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
25000
[root@zoo ~]#

That is the reason why this test is failing on this Ivy Bridge notebook:

[root@zoo ~]# dmesg | grep perf_event_max_sample_rate
[ 4068.969761] perf samples too long (2552> 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
[ 4069.842176] perf samples too long (5039> 5000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000
[root@zoo ~]#

Look at kernel/events/core.c.

So keeping it at 4k may not be a bad idea, or at least have code that reads
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate if using the highest freq is
desired.

I dropped it to 4k in V3.

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