Re: [PATCH] perf top: Make -g refer to callchains

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:59:45AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:46:09AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > btw., here's some 'perf top' call graph performance and profiling 
> > quality feedback, with the latest perf code:
> > 
> > 'perf top --call-graph fp' now works very well, using just 0.2% 
> > of CPU time on a fast system:
> > 
> >  4676 mingo     20   0  612m  56m 9948 S     1  0.2   0:00.68 perf                                                                                                        
> > 
> > 'perf top --call-graph dwarf' on the other hand is horrendously 
> > slow, using 20% of CPU time on a 4 GHz CPU:
> > 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                     
> >  4646 mingo     20   0  658m  81m  12m R    19  0.3   0:18.17 perf    
> > 
> > On another system with a 2.4GHz CPU it's taking up 100% of CPU 
> > time (!):
> > 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                               
> >  8018 mingo     20   0  290320  45220   8520 R  99.5  0.3   0:58.81 perf      
> > 
> > Profiling 'perf top' shows all sorts of very high dwarf 
> > processing overhead:
> 
> Yeah, top dwarf callchain has been so far a proof of concept, it
> exacerbates problems that can be seen on 'report', but since its live,
> we can see it more clearly.
> 
> The work on improving callchain processing, (rb_tree'ing, new comm
> infrastructure) alleviated the problem a bit.
> 
> Tuning the stack size requested from the kernel and using --max-stack
> can help when it is really needed, but yes, work on it is *badly* needed.

agreed ;-)

also there's new remote unwind interface recently added
into libdw, which seems to be faster than libunwind.
I plan on adding this soon.

jirka
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