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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2019-12-04 18:39:25 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-01-06 15:46:09 +0100
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parentperf record: Adapt affinity to machines with #CPUs > 1K (diff)
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perf sched timehist: Add support for filtering on CPU
Allow user to limit output to one or more CPUs. Really helpful on systems with a large number of cpus. Committer testing: # perf sched record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.765 MB perf.data (1412 samples) ] [root@quaco ~]# perf sched timehist | head Samples do not have callchains. time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) --------------- ------ ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------- 66307.802686 [0000] perf[13086] 0.000 0.000 0.000 66307.802700 [0000] migration/0[12] 0.000 0.001 0.014 66307.802766 [0001] perf[13086] 0.000 0.000 0.000 66307.802774 [0001] migration/1[15] 0.000 0.001 0.007 66307.802841 [0002] perf[13086] 0.000 0.000 0.000 66307.802849 [0002] migration/2[20] 0.000 0.001 0.008 66307.802913 [0003] perf[13086] 0.000 0.000 0.000 # # perf sched timehist --cpu 2 | head Samples do not have callchains. time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) --------------- ------ ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------- 66307.802841 [0002] perf[13086] 0.000 0.000 0.000 66307.802849 [0002] migration/2[20] 0.000 0.001 0.008 66307.964485 [0002] <idle> 0.000 0.000 161.635 66307.964811 [0002] CPU 0/KVM[3589/3561] 0.000 0.056 0.325 66307.965477 [0002] <idle> 0.325 0.000 0.666 66307.965553 [0002] CPU 0/KVM[3589/3561] 0.666 0.024 0.076 66307.966456 [0002] <idle> 0.076 0.000 0.903 # Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191204173925.66976-1-dsahern@kernel.org 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
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@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ OPTIONS for 'perf sched timehist'
--max-stack::
Maximum number of functions to display in backtrace, default 5.
+-C=::
+--cpu=::
+ Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).
+
-p=::
--pid=::
Only show events for given process ID (comma separated list).