From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: tracing: horrible read performance on host with many CPUs
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:50:38 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738ci9uzl.fsf@openvz.org> (raw)
I have tried to use tracing on host with 32cpus, but it is appeared
that performance is horrible.
dd if=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe of=tmpfs/t3.log bs=1M
0+21268 records in
0+21267 records out
85701248 bytes (86 MB) copied, 26.1424 s, 3.3 MB/s
0+25706 records in
0+25705 records out
103600749 bytes (104 MB) copied, 31.6595 s, 3.3 MB/s
0+59204 records in
0+59203 records out
238746128 bytes (239 MB) copied, 73.4347 s, 3.3 MB/s
Since I've collected ~3Gb of data this takes a lot of time to
simply copy from kernel to tmpfs.
AFAIU this happen due to sub-optimal sorting procedure __find_next_entry
Each time it walks each cpu and pick the one with smallest timestamp.
This can be optimized simply by fetching N-entries at the time. Are
there any plans to implement that?
BTW:What is the most convenient way fetch big data from traces?
One of possible way is to dump per-cpu traces(20Mb/s in my case) and
then merge files according to timestamp
next reply other threads:[~2014-08-27 8:50 UTC|newest]
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2014-08-27 8:50 Dmitry Monakhov [this message]
2014-08-27 9:20 ` Steven Rostedt
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