Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] perf tools: add 'perf irq' to measure the hardware interrupts

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:43:10PM +0800, Bixuan Cui wrote:
> When the hardware interrupt processing function is executed, the interrupt and 
> preemption of current cpu are disabled. As a result, the task is suspended.
> The execution of the hardware processing function takes a long time
> (for example 5 ms), will affect the task scheduling performance.
> 
> This patches provides the 'perf irq' command to trace and calculate the time
> consumed of the hardware irq function.
> 
> [verse]
> 'perf irq' [<options>] {record|report}
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> -----------
> There are several variants of 'perf irq':
> 
>   'perf irq record <command>' to record the irq handler events
>   of an arbitrary workload.
> 
>   'perf irq report' to calculate the time consumed by each
>    hardware interrupt processing function.
> 
>     Example usage:
>         perf irq record -- sleep 1
>         perf irq report
> 
>    By default it shows the individual irq events, including the irq name,
>    cpu(execute the hardware interrupt processing function), time consumed,
>    entry time and exit time for the each hardware irq:
> 
>    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      Irq name         |  CPU   | Time consume us | Handler entry time | Handler exit time
>    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      enp2s0f2-tx-0    | [0006] |      0.000001 s |   6631263.313329 s |   6631263.313330 s
>      megasas          | [0013] |      0.000003 s |   6631263.209564 s |   6631263.209567 s
>      acpi             | [0016] |      0.000018 s |   6631263.085787 s |   6631263.085805 s
> 
>     And:
> 	perf irq --cpu 78 record -- sleep 1
> 	perf irq --cpu 78 report
>    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      Irq name         |  CPU   | Time consume us | Handler entry time | Handler exit time
>    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     enp134s0f0-TxRx-2 | [0078] |      0.000005 s |    693757.533189 s |    693757.533194 s
> 
> 
> Changes from v4:
> * Keep pairs of irq entry/exit per cpu;
> * Add NUL-termination to the end of irq->irq_name when strncpy is used;
> * Delete some unused declarations and parameters;

hi,
I can't apply this on later Arnaldo's perf/core,
what commit/branch is this based one?

thanks,
jirka

> 
> Changes from v3:
> * Delete 'perf irq script' because its function can be implemented using
>   'perf script';
> * Add --cpu option for 'perf irq';
> 
> Changes from v2:
> * Delete "-m", "1024" in __cmd_record();
> * Change 'perf irq timeconsume <options>' to 'perf irq report <options>';
> * Fix a error for tools/perf/Documentation/perf-irq.txt;
> 
> Bixuan Cui (2):
>   perf tools: add 'perf irq' to measure the hardware interrupts
>   perf tools: Add documentation for 'perf irq' command
> 
>  tools/perf/Build                      |   1 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-irq.txt |  47 +++++
>  tools/perf/builtin-irq.c              | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/builtin.h                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/command-list.txt           |   1 +
>  tools/perf/perf.c                     |   1 +
>  6 files changed, 310 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-irq.txt
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/builtin-irq.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>