Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] perf trace: Add --summary-mode option

From: Howard Chu
Date: Sat Feb 08 2025 - 00:25:22 EST


Hello Namhyung,

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've realized that perf trace shows system call summary at the end for
> each thread. But sometimes users want to see the global whole system
> summary or statistics instead.
>
> So I've added --summary-mode option like below:
>
> $ sudo ./perf trace -as --summary-mode=total sleep 1
>
> Summary of events:
>
> total, 21580 events
>
> syscall calls errors total min avg max stddev
> (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec) (%)
> --------------- -------- ------ -------- --------- --------- --------- ------
> epoll_wait 1305 0 14716.712 0.000 11.277 551.529 8.87%
> futex 1256 89 13331.197 0.000 10.614 733.722 15.49%
> poll 669 0 6806.618 0.000 10.174 459.316 11.77%
> ppoll 220 0 3968.797 0.000 18.040 516.775 25.35%
> clock_nanosleep 1 0 1000.027 1000.027 1000.027 1000.027 0.00%
> epoll_pwait 21 0 592.783 0.000 28.228 522.293 88.29%
> nanosleep 16 0 60.515 0.000 3.782 10.123 33.33%
> ioctl 510 0 4.284 0.001 0.008 0.182 8.84%
> recvmsg 1434 775 3.497 0.001 0.002 0.174 6.37%
> write 1393 0 2.854 0.001 0.002 0.017 1.79%
> read 1063 100 2.236 0.000 0.002 0.083 5.11%
> ...
>
> Also it changes internal data structure to hash table to track
> statistics of syscalls. And removes the rb_resort code.
>
> v3 changes)
> * Add Acked-by from Howard
> * Update commit messages (Ian)

Sorry for the delay.

Reviewed-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Howard
>
> v2 changes)
> * Rebase to current perf-tools-next
> * Fix some style issues (Howard)
> * Rename to --summary-mode (Howard)
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> Namhyung Kim (4):
> perf trace: Allocate syscall stats only if summary is on
> perf trace: Convert syscall_stats to hashmap
> perf tools: Get rid of now-unused rb_resort.h
> perf trace: Add --summary-mode option
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 4 +
> tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 247 +++++++++++++++++++-----
> tools/perf/util/rb_resort.h | 146 --------------
> 3 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 194 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/rb_resort.h
>
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> 2.48.1.502.g6dc24dfdaf-goog
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