Re: Kernel profiles anyone?

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:35 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Are there any recent kernel profiles?  I think from an acedemic
> perspective it'd be nice to see some graphs and numbers nobody
> understands showing where the longest running code paths in the kernel
> occur.  It might also be nice for those latency whores (*runs to the
> back and raises hand*) and those who want to increase overall
> performance and efficiency; then there'd be a map showing . . .
> something that only kernel hackers could possibly understand or care about.

There's a latency histogram option in the -rt patch set.  You can pipe
the output through gnuplot and get some cool graphs.  Then you can
use /proc/latency_trace to try and guess what code paths the peaks on
the graphs correspond to.  The timer interrupt will be the biggest peak,
around 23 usecs last time I checked.

I haven't done it lately so it would be interesting to see the current
graphs.  Someone could make a really good presentation out of it at some
kernel development conference.

Lee

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