Skip to content

Lego Profilers

Lego has three runtime profilers in kernel:

Combined together, they can provide the following information. Sweet, huh? ```c [ 1017.047366] Kernel strace [ 1017.050276] Task: 20:20 nr_accumulated_threads: 46 [ 1017.055837] % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall [ 1017.063213] ------ -------------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- [ 1017.071648] 98.16 33.839597842 1879978 18 0 sys_futex [ 1017.079406] 0.26 0.260143997 260144 1 0 sys_execve [ 1017.087260] 0.18 0.185456860 7133 26 0 sys_write [ 1017.095017] 0.50 0.050189546 913 55 0 sys_munmap [ 1017.102870] 0.25 0.025223661 255 99 0 sys_mmap [ 1017.110531] 0.50 0.000505134 12 45 0 sys_clone [ 1017.118288] 0.20 0.000202327 26 8 0 sys_read [ 1017.125947] 0.14 0.000144065 17 9 0 sys_open [ 1017.133608] 0.67 0.000067251 7 11 0 sys_brk [ 1017.141171] 0.30 0.000030361 7 5 0 sys_newfstat [ 1017.149219] 0.64 0.000006410 1 9 0 sys_close [ 1017.156976] 0.48 0.000004842 1 45 0 sys_madvise [ 1017.164927] 0.34 0.000003443 1 47 0 sys_set_robust_list [ 1017.173653] 0.21 0.000002137 1 52 0 sys_mprotect [ 1017.181702] 0.71 0.000000717 1 4 0 sys_gettimeofday [ 1017.190137] 0.60 0.000000608 1 3 0 sys_time [ 1017.197797] 0.51 0.000000513 1 2 0 sys_getrlimit [ 1017.205942] 0.49 0.000000498 1 2 0 sys_rt_sigprocmask [ 1017.214572] 0.46 0.000000469 1 4 0 sys_rt_sigaction [ 1017.223008] 0.45 0.000000453 1 2 0 sys_arch_prctl [ 1017.231249] 0.27 0.000000272 1 2 0 sys_newuname [ 1017.239298] 0.13 0.000000135 1 2 0 sys_set_tid_address [ 1017.248025] ------ -------------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- [ 1017.256460] 100.00 34.361581541 451 0 total [ 1017.263830] [ 1017.308295] [ 1017.309754] Kernel Heatmap (top #10) [ 1017.313731] Address Function NR % [ 1017.321294] ---------------- -------------------- ---------- --------- [ 1017.328858] ffffffff8101a600 cpu_idle 112082 73.11 [ 1017.336421] ffffffff810666f0 __schedule 19192 12.95 [ 1017.343983] ffffffff8104f500 mlx4_ib_poll_cq 5551 3.99 [ 1017.351546] ffffffff8103bf50 delay_tsc 5393 3.83 [ 1017.359110] ffffffff81034a10 victim_flush_async 3766 2.72 [ 1017.366673] ffffffff8102b220 slob_alloc.constpro 1992 1.47 [ 1017.374235] ffffffff810668d0 schedule 1519 0.15 [ 1017.381800] ffffffff810648f0 fit_send_reply_with 956 0.95 [ 1017.389362] ffffffff81062370 ibapi_send_reply_ti 307 0.30 [ 1017.396925] ffffffff8105a0d0 ib_mad_completion_h 232 0.23 [ 1017.404487] ---------------- -------------------- ---------- --------- [ 1017.412052] 151994 100.00 [ 1017.419613] [ 1017.421267] [ 1017.422911] Kernel Profile Points [ 1017.426594] status name total nr avg.ns [ 1017.436292] ------- -------------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- [ 1017.445988] off flush_tlb_others 0.000153470 55 2791 [ 1017.455685] off pcache_cache_miss 16.147020152 274698 58781 [ 1017.465381] ------- -------------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------

```


Last update: April 8, 2018

Comments

Back to top