From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756025Ab3AXUSQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:18:16 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:50176 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755928Ab3AXUIr (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:08:47 -0500 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim , Namhyung Kim , Hitoshi Mitake , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 38/74] perf bench: Flush stdout before starting bench suite Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:07:47 -0300 Message-Id: <1359058103-31645-39-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.1.361.gec3ae6e In-Reply-To: <1359058103-31645-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> References: <1359058103-31645-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Namhyung Kim perf bench prints header message for bench suite before starting the benchmark. However if the stdout is redirected to a file and bench suite forks child processes this (and possibly other debugging messages too) will be repeated multiple times. $ perf bench sched messaging # Running sched/messaging benchmark... # 20 sender and receiver processes per group # 10 groups == 400 processes run Total time: 0.100 [sec] $ perf bench sched messaging > result.txt $ wc -l result.txt 391 In this file, there were so many "Running sched/messaging benchmark..." lines. This was because stdout is converted to fully-buffered due to the redirection and inherited child processes. Other lines are printed after reaping all those tasks. So fix it by flushing stdout before starting bench suites. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake Cc: Hitoshi Mitake Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357637966-8216-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c index cae9a5f..afd1255 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ static void all_suite(struct bench_subsys *subsys) /* FROM HERE */ printf("# Running %s/%s benchmark...\n", subsys->name, suites[i].name); + fflush(stdout); argv[1] = suites[i].name; suites[i].fn(1, argv, NULL); @@ -225,6 +226,7 @@ int cmd_bench(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) printf("# Running %s/%s benchmark...\n", subsystems[i].name, subsystems[i].suites[j].name); + fflush(stdout); status = subsystems[i].suites[j].fn(argc - 1, argv + 1, prefix); goto end; -- 1.8.1.1.361.gec3ae6e