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From: tip-bot for Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
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Cc: acme@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	eranian@google.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, rja@sgi.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf record: remove unneeded gettimeofday() call
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 08:52:43 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-ef365cefbc53d8674a18520a1d4c2e5590127299@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100518225240.GC25589@sgi.com>

Commit-ID:  ef365cefbc53d8674a18520a1d4c2e5590127299
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ef365cefbc53d8674a18520a1d4c2e5590127299
Author:     Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:52:40 -0500
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:53:58 -0300

perf record: remove unneeded gettimeofday() call

Perf record repeatedly calls gettimeofday() which adds noise to the performance
measurements.  Since gettimeofday() is only used for the error printf, delete
it.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100518225240.GC25589@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c |   17 +----------------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 66b8ecd..e672269 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -65,9 +65,6 @@ static bool			multiplex			=  false;
 static int			multiplex_fd			=     -1;
 
 static long			samples				=      0;
-static struct timeval		last_read;
-static struct timeval		this_read;
-
 static u64			bytes_written			=      0;
 
 static struct pollfd		*event_array;
@@ -147,8 +144,6 @@ static void mmap_read(struct mmap_data *md)
 	void *buf;
 	int diff;
 
-	gettimeofday(&this_read, NULL);
-
 	/*
 	 * If we're further behind than half the buffer, there's a chance
 	 * the writer will bite our tail and mess up the samples under us.
@@ -159,23 +154,13 @@ static void mmap_read(struct mmap_data *md)
 	 */
 	diff = head - old;
 	if (diff < 0) {
-		struct timeval iv;
-		unsigned long msecs;
-
-		timersub(&this_read, &last_read, &iv);
-		msecs = iv.tv_sec*1000 + iv.tv_usec/1000;
-
-		fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: failed to keep up with mmap data."
-				"  Last read %lu msecs ago.\n", msecs);
-
+		fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: failed to keep up with mmap data\n");
 		/*
 		 * head points to a known good entry, start there.
 		 */
 		old = head;
 	}
 
-	last_read = this_read;
-
 	if (old != head)
 		samples++;
 

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21  8:53 UTC|newest]

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2010-05-18 22:52 [BUGFIX] " Russ Anderson
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