Re: [PATCH v10 09/12] perf record: implement -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue May 14 2019 - 16:06:17 EST


Em Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 08:44:42PM +0300, Alexey Budankov escreveu:
>
> Implemented -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option that enables compression
> of mmaped kernel data buffers content in runtime during perf record
> mode collection. Default option value is 1 (fastest compression).
>
> Compression overhead has been measured for serial and AIO streaming
> when profiling matrix multiplication workload:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> | SERIAL | AIO-1 |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------|

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- Arnaldo

> |-z | OVH(x) | ratio(x) size(MiB) | OVH(x) | ratio(x) size(MiB) |
> |---------------------------------------------------------------|
> | 0 | 1,00 | 1,000 179,424 | 1,00 | 1,000 187,527 |
> | 1 | 1,04 | 8,427 181,148 | 1,01 | 8,474 188,562 |
> | 2 | 1,07 | 8,055 186,953 | 1,03 | 7,912 191,773 |
> | 3 | 1,04 | 8,283 181,908 | 1,03 | 8,220 191,078 |
> | 5 | 1,09 | 8,101 187,705 | 1,05 | 7,780 190,065 |
> | 8 | 1,05 | 9,217 179,191 | 1,12 | 6,111 193,024 |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> OVH = (Execution time with -z N) / (Execution time with -z 0)
>
> ratio - compression ratio
> size - number of bytes that was compressed
>
> size ~= trace size x ratio
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 5 +++++
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
> index 18fceb49434e..0567bacc2ae6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
> @@ -471,6 +471,11 @@ Also at some cases executing less trace write syscalls with bigger data size can
> shorter than executing more trace write syscalls with smaller data size thus lowering
> runtime profiling overhead.
>
> +-z::
> +--compression-level[=n]::
> +Produce compressed trace using specified level n (default: 1 - fastest compression,
> +22 - smallest trace)
> +
> --all-kernel::
> Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index 2e083891affa..7258f2964a3b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -440,6 +440,26 @@ static int record__mmap_flush_parse(const struct option *opt,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
> +static unsigned int comp_level_default = 1;
> +static int record__parse_comp_level(const struct option *opt,
> + const char *str,
> + int unset)
> +{
> + struct record_opts *opts = (struct record_opts *)opt->value;
> +
> + if (unset) {
> + opts->comp_level = 0;
> + } else {
> + if (str)
> + opts->comp_level = strtol(str, NULL, 0);
> + if (!opts->comp_level)
> + opts->comp_level = comp_level_default;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> static unsigned int comp_level_max = 22;
>
> static int record__comp_enabled(struct record *rec)
> @@ -2169,6 +2189,11 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = {
> OPT_CALLBACK(0, "affinity", &record.opts, "node|cpu",
> "Set affinity mask of trace reading thread to NUMA node cpu mask or cpu of processed mmap buffer",
> record__parse_affinity),
> +#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
> + OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG('z', "compression-level", &record.opts, &comp_level_default,
> + "n", "Produce compressed trace using specified level (default: 1 - fastest compression, 22 - smallest trace)",
> + record__parse_comp_level),
> +#endif
> OPT_END()
> };
>
> --
> 2.20.1

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- Arnaldo