Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] perf report/script: Support percent and multiple range in --time option

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Dec 13 2017 - 09:28:33 EST


Em Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:13:40PM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
> v7:
> ---
> v7 doesn't have functional change. The update is only:

Thanks for working on this, will try and get this processed in my next
round.

- Arnaldo

> 1. Rebase to latest perf/core branch
>
> 2. Update patch description according to Arnaldo's comments.
>
> Impacted patch:
> ---------------
> perf header: Record first sample time and last sample time in perf file header
> perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
>
> v6:
> ---
> 1. Create a new option "--timestamp-boundary" in perf record.
>
> Currently '--buildid-all' is not enabled by default. So the walking
> on all samples is the default operation. There is no big overhead
> to calculate the timestamp boundary in process_sample_event handler
> once we already go through all samples. So the timestamp boundary
> calculation is enabled by default when '--buildid-all' is not enabled.
>
> While if '--buildid-all' is enabled, we creates a new option
> "--timestamp-boundary" for user to decide if it enables the
> timestamp boundary calculation.
>
> Impacted patch:
> ---------------
> perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
>
> 2. Fix the merge issue with the latest perf/core branch.
> No functional changes.
>
> Impacted patch:
> ---------------
> perf report: support time percent and multiple time ranges
> perf script: support time percent and multiple time ranges
>
> v5:
> ---
> 1. There is an issue that the sample walking can only work when
> '--buildid-all' is not enabled. So we need to let the walking
> be able to work even if '--buildid-all' is enabled and let the
> processing skips the dso hit marking for this case.
>
> 2. Check if first/last sample time is recorded in perf data file.
> If it's not recorded, return error message to user.
>
> Patched modified in v5:
> perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
> perf report: support time percent and multiple time ranges
> perf script: support time percent and multiple time ranges
>
> v4:
> ---
> 1. Use perf script time style for timestamp printing. Also add with
> the printing of sample duration. For example:
>
> perf report --header
>
> time of first sample : 5276531.323099
> time of last sample : 5276555.345625
> sample duration : 24022.526 ms
>
> 2. Fix an invalid time string issue. For example,
>
> perf script --time 10%/10x12321xsdfdasfdsafdsafdsa
>
> Now in code, it uses strtol to replace atoi.
>
> 3. Remove perf_time__skip_sample, only uses perf_time__ranges_skip_sample
> in perf report/perf script.
>
> v3:
> ---
> 1. Move the definitions of first_sample_time/last_sample_time from
> perf_session and struct record to perf_evlist and update the
> related code.
>
> v2:
> ---
> 1. This patch creates a new header feature type HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME and related
> ops. Save the first sample time and the last sample time to the feature
> section in perf file header.
>
> 2. Add checking for last element in time range.
>
> For example, select the first and second 10% time slices.
> perf report --time 10%/1,10%/2
>
> Note that now it includes the last element in [10%, 20%] but it
> doesn't include the last element in [0, 10%). It's to avoid
> the overlap.
>
> Following patches are changed:
>
> perf header: Record first sample time and last sample time in perf file header
> perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
> perf util: Create function to perform multiple time range checking
>
> v1: initial post
> ----------------
>
> Current perf report/script/... have a --time option to limit the time
> range of output. But it only supports the absolute time.
>
> The patch series extend this option to let it support percent of time
> and support the multiple time ranges.
>
> For example:
>
> 1. Select the second 10% time slice
> perf report --time 10%/2
>
> 2. Select from 0% to 10% time slice
> perf report --time 0%-10%
>
> It also support the multiple time ranges.
>
> 3. Select the first and second 10% time slices
> perf report --time 10%/1,10%/2
>
> 4. Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices
> perf report --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
>
> Jin Yao (6):
> perf header: Record first sample time and last sample time in perf
> file header
> perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time
> perf util: Create function to parse time percent
> perf util: Create function to perform multiple time range checking
> perf report: support time percent and multiple time ranges
> perf script: support time percent and multiple time ranges
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 3 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 16 ++
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 16 ++
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 4 +
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 18 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 31 ++-
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 34 ++-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 60 ++++++
> tools/perf/util/header.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/time-utils.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++++--
> tools/perf/util/time-utils.h | 6 +
> 12 files changed, 398 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
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