Re: [PATCH v1] perf stat: enable 1ms interval for printing event counters values

[Alexey Budankov]

On 03.04.2018 18:22, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 06:04:13PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> Currently print count interval for performance counters values is 
>> limited by 10ms so reading the values at frequencies higher than 100Hz 
>> is restricted by the tool.
>>
>> This change makes perf stat -I possible on frequencies up to 1KHz and, 
>> to some extent, makes perf stat -I to be on-par with perf record 
>> sampling profiling.
>>
>> When running perf stat -I for monitoring e.g. PCIe uncore counters and 
>> at the same time profiling some I/O workload by perf record e.g. for 
>> cpu-cycles and context switches, it is then possible to observe 
>> consolidated CPU/OS/IO(Uncore) performance picture for that workload.
>>
>> Tool overhead warning printed when specifying -v option can be missed 
>> due to screen scrolling in case you have output to the console 
>> so message is moved into help available by running perf stat -h.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 14 ++------------
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> I don't mind taking out the limit, but please update also
> the stat man page, it mentiones the 10ms minimum

Yep, will do. Thanks for noticing this.

Thanks,
Alexey

> 
> thanks,
> jirka
> 
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
>> index f5c454855908..147a27e8c937 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
>> @@ -1943,7 +1943,8 @@ static const struct option stat_options[] = {
>>  	OPT_STRING(0, "post", &post_cmd, "command",
>>  			"command to run after to the measured command"),
>>  	OPT_UINTEGER('I', "interval-print", &stat_config.interval,
>> -		    "print counts at regular interval in ms (>= 10)"),
>> +		    "print counts at regular interval in ms "
>> +		    "(overhead is possible for values <= 100ms)"),
>>  	OPT_INTEGER(0, "interval-count", &stat_config.times,
>>  		    "print counts for fixed number of times"),
>>  	OPT_UINTEGER(0, "timeout", &stat_config.timeout,
>> @@ -2923,17 +2924,6 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
>>  		}
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	if (interval && interval < 100) {
>> -		if (interval < 10) {
>> -			pr_err("print interval must be >= 10ms\n");
>> -			parse_options_usage(stat_usage, stat_options, "I", 1);
>> -			goto out;
>> -		} else
>> -			pr_warning("print interval < 100ms. "
>> -				   "The overhead percentage could be high in some cases. "
>> -				   "Please proceed with caution.\n");
>> -	}
>> -
>>  	if (stat_config.times && interval)
>>  		interval_count = true;
>>  	else if (stat_config.times && !interval) {
>