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[PATCH 13/14] perf tools: warn on high overhead

From kan.liang@intel.com
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 13/14] perf tools: warn on high overhead
Date 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
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From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>

The rough overhead rate can be caculated by the sum of all kinds of
overhead / elapsed time.
If the overhead rate is higher than 10%, warning the user.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/session.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index e84808f..decfc48 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1559,6 +1559,30 @@ perf_session__warn_order(const struct perf_session *session)
 		ui__warning("%u out of order events recorded.\n", oe->nr_unordered_events);
 }
 
+static void
+perf_session__warn_overhead(const struct perf_session *session)
+{
+	const struct events_stats *stats = &session->evlist->stats;
+	double overhead_rate;
+	u64 overhead;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < session->header.env.nr_cpus_online; i++) {
+		overhead = stats->total_nmi_overhead[i][1];
+		overhead += stats->total_mux_overhead[i][1];
+		overhead += stats->total_sb_overhead[i][1];
+		overhead += stats->total_user_write_overhead[i][1];
+
+		overhead_rate = (double)overhead / (double)stats->elapsed_time;
+
+		if (overhead_rate > 0.1) {
+			ui__warning("Perf overhead is high! The overhead rate is %3.2f%% on CPU %d\n\n"
+				    "Please consider reducing the number of events, or increasing the period, or decrease the frequency.\n\n",
+				    overhead_rate * 100.0, i);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session)
 {
 	const struct events_stats *stats = &session->evlist->stats;
@@ -1632,6 +1656,8 @@ static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session)
 			    "Increase it by --proc-map-timeout\n",
 			    stats->nr_proc_map_timeout);
 	}
+
+	perf_session__warn_overhead(session);
 }
 
 static int perf_session__flush_thread_stack(struct thread *thread,
-- 
2.5.5

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[PATCH 00/14] export perf overheads information kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-23 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-23 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:50 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-24 14:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-24 15:00 +0100
          RE: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-24 15:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 15:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 15:50 +0100
              RE: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-24 15:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-11-24 19:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-24 20:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-11-24 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf/x86: Introduce PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-24 20:10 +0100
  [PATCH 11/14] perf tools: record write data overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 11/14] perf tools: record write data overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 11/14] perf tools: record write data overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:20 +0100
  [PATCH 04/14] perf/x86: output side-band events overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 04/14] perf/x86: output side-band events overhead Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-23 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 04/14] perf/x86: output side-band events overhead Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-24 17:30 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 04/14] perf/x86: output side-band events overhead "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-24 20:50 +0100
  [PATCH 07/14] perf tools: show multiplexing overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH 08/14] perf tools: show side-band events overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH 05/14] perf tools: handle PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD record type kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 05/14] perf tools: handle PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD record type Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-23 23:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 05/14] perf tools: handle PERF_RECORD_OVERHEAD record type Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:00 +0100
  [PATCH 12/14] perf tools: record elapsed time kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH 13/14] perf tools: warn on high overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 13/14] perf tools: warn on high overhead Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-11-23 21:30 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 13/14] perf tools: warn on high overhead "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-23 23:10 +0100
  [PATCH 14/14] perf script: show overhead events kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 14/14] perf script: show overhead events Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 14/14] perf script: show overhead events Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 14/14] perf script: show overhead events Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 14/14] perf script: show overhead events Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH 03/14] perf/x86: output multiplexing overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 03/14] perf/x86: output multiplexing overhead Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-23 21:10 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 03/14] perf/x86: output multiplexing overhead "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-23 21:20 +0100
  [PATCH 10/14] perf tools: introduce PERF_RECORD_USER_OVERHEAD kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead kan.liang@intel.com - 2016-11-23 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:00 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2016-11-24 14:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 16:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-11-25 00:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-25 00:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-11-25 01:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 06/14] perf tools: show NMI overhead Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 00:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 00/14] export perf overheads information Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-24 05:30 +0100

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