perf record: Add num-synthesize-threads option
To control degree of parallelism of the synthesize_mmap() code which
is scanning /proc/PID/task/PID/maps and can be time consuming.
Mimic perf top way of handling the option.
If not specified will default to 1 thread, i.e. default behavior before
this option.
On a desktop computer the processing of /proc/PID/task/PID/maps isn't
slow enough to warrant parallel processing and the thread creation has
some cost - hence the default of 1. On a loaded server with
>100 cores it is possible to see synthesis times in the order of
seconds and in this case having the option is desirable.
As the processing is a synchronization point, it is legitimate to worry if
Amdahl's law will apply to this patch. Profiling with this patch in
place:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200415054050.31645-4-irogers@google.com/
shows:
...
- 32.59% __perf_event__synthesize_threads
- 32.54% __event__synthesize_thread
+ 22.13% perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events
+ 6.68% perf_event__get_comm_ids.constprop.0
+ 1.49% process_synthesized_event
+ 1.29% __GI___readdir64
+ 0.60% __opendir
...
That is the processing is 1.49% of execution time and there is plenty to
make parallel. This is shown in the benchmark in this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200415054050.31645-2-irogers@google.com/
Computing performance of multi threaded perf event synthesis by
synthesizing events on CPU 0:
Number of synthesis threads: 1
Average synthesis took: 127729.000 usec (+- 3372.880 usec)
Average num. events: 21548.600 (+- 0.306)
Average time per event 5.927 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 2
Average synthesis took: 88863.500 usec (+- 385.168 usec)
Average num. events: 21552.800 (+- 0.327)
Average time per event 4.123 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 3
Average synthesis took: 83257.400 usec (+- 348.617 usec)
Average num. events: 21553.200 (+- 0.327)
Average time per event 3.863 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 4
Average synthesis took: 75093.000 usec (+- 422.978 usec)
Average num. events: 21554.200 (+- 0.200)
Average time per event 3.484 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 5
Average synthesis took: 64896.600 usec (+- 353.348 usec)
Average num. events: 21558.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 3.010 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 6
Average synthesis took: 59210.200 usec (+- 342.890 usec)
Average num. events: 21560.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 2.746 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 7
Average synthesis took: 54093.900 usec (+- 306.247 usec)
Average num. events: 21562.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 2.509 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 8
Average synthesis took: 48938.700 usec (+- 341.732 usec)
Average num. events: 21564.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 2.269 usec
Where average time per synthesized event goes from 5.927 usec with 1
thread to 2.269 usec with 8. This isn't a linear speed up as not all of
synthesize code has been made parallel. If the synthesis time was about
10 seconds then using 8 threads may bring this down to less than 4.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422155038.9380-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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