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authorDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>2016-11-29 18:15:44 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-12-01 17:02:52 +0100
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perf sched timehist: Add option to specify time window of interest
Add option to allow user to control analysis window. e.g., collect data for time window and analyze a segment of interest within that window. Committer notes: Testing it: # perf sched record -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.593 MB perf.data (25 samples) ] # # perf sched timehist | head -18 Samples do not have callchains. time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) ------------- ------ --------------- --------- --------- -------- 19818.635579 [0002] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 19818.635613 [0000] perf[9116] 0.000 0.000 0.000 19818.635676 [0000] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.063 19818.635678 [0000] rcuos/2[29] 0.000 0.002 0.001 19818.635696 [0002] perf[9117] 0.000 0.004 0.116 19818.635702 [0000] <idle> 0.001 0.000 0.024 19818.635709 [0002] migration/2[25] 0.000 0.003 0.012 19818.636263 [0000] usleep[9117] 0.005 0.000 0.560 19818.636316 [0000] <idle> 0.560 0.000 0.053 19818.636358 [0002] <idle> 0.129 0.000 0.649 19818.636358 [0000] usleep[9117] 0.053 0.002 0.042 # # perf sched timehist --time 19818.635696, Samples do not have callchains. time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) ------------- ------ --------------- -------- --------- --------- 19818.635696 [0002] perf[9117] 0.000 0.120 0.000 19818.635702 [0000] <idle> 0.019 0.000 0.006 19818.635709 [0002] migration/2[25] 0.000 0.003 0.012 19818.636263 [0000] usleep[9117] 0.005 0.000 0.560 19818.636316 [0000] <idle> 0.560 0.000 0.053 19818.636358 [0002] <idle> 0.129 0.000 0.649 19818.636358 [0000] usleep[9117] 0.053 0.002 0.042 # # perf sched timehist --time 19818.635696,19818.635709 Samples do not have callchains. time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) ------------- ------ --------------- --------- --------- --------- 19818.635696 [0002] perf[9117] 0.000 0.120 0.000 19818.635702 [0000] <idle> 0.019 0.000 0.006 19818.635709 [0002] migration/2[25] 0.000 0.003 0.012 19818.635709 [0000] usleep[9117] 0.005 0.000 0.006 # Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480439746-42695-5-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
index 121c60da03e5..7775b1eb2bee 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ OPTIONS for 'perf sched timehist'
--migrations::
Show migration events.
+--time::
+ Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
+ have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
+ stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ to end of file.
+
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1]