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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Hemant Kumar <hkshaw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	anton@redhat.com, systemtap@sourceware.org,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Support for perf to probe into SDT markers:
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:34:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131028103402.GB6274@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526E2304.1000407@iki.fi>


* Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi> wrote:

> On 10/26/2013 02:16 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> >Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> writes:
> >
> >>Is there a technical reason why 'perf list' could not show all the
> >>available SDT markers on a system and that the 'mark to event'
> >>mapping cannot happen automatically? [...]
> >A quick experiment with:
> >
> >   find `echo $PATH | tr : ' '` -type f -perm -555 |
> >        xargs readelf -n 2>/dev/null |
> >        grep STAP 2>/dev/null
> >
> >suggests reasonable performance for my F19 workstation (a second or
> >two over ~6000 executables), once all the ELF content is in the block
> >cache.  According to a stap eventcount.stp run, that required about
> >50000 syscall.read events.
> >
> >Note that a $PATH search excludes shared libraries, which can also
> >carry <sys/sdt.h> markers.  Adding /usr/lib* in more than doubles the
> >work, then there's /usr/libexec etc.
> 
> Thanks for providing numbers to the discussion. AFAICT, we might 
> even be able to just scan everything for 'perf list' by default.

That should definitely be better in the long run than any whitelist 
(or no list at all).

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-28 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  5:04 [PATCH v4 0/3] perf support to SDT markers Hemant Kumar
2013-10-23  5:04 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] SDT markers listing by perf: Hemant Kumar
2013-10-23  5:05 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Support for perf to probe into SDT markers: Hemant Kumar
2013-10-24  5:45   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-24 10:25     ` Hemant Kumar
2013-10-25 12:38   ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-25 12:59     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-10-25 14:20       ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-25 15:20         ` David Ahern
2013-10-28  8:48           ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-28 16:59             ` David Ahern
2013-10-28 18:45               ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-29  9:55                 ` Hemant Kumar
2013-10-29 14:05                   ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-29 19:41                     ` Hemant Kumar
2013-10-30 10:22                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-26  9:50       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-28  8:56         ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-28 10:57         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-29  5:50         ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-26 11:16     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2013-10-28  8:40       ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-28 10:34         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-10-30 10:05       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-30 11:51         ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-31  9:59           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-31 10:54           ` Mark Wielaard
2013-10-31 10:57             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-31 13:12               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-31 13:23               ` Mark Wielaard
2013-10-30 13:30         ` Hemant Kumar
2013-10-28 11:23     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-28 12:42       ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-28 14:11         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-10-28 14:21           ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-28 17:31             ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-10-28 17:48               ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-29  3:19                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-29  5:31                   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-29 14:51                   ` Mark Wielaard
2013-10-29 19:54                     ` Pekka Enberg
2013-10-29  2:51               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-23  5:05 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation regarding perf/sdt Hemant Kumar

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