Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mmap_lock: add tracepoints around lock acquisition | From | Vlastimil Babka <> | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:49:14 +0100 |
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On 10/28/20 12:07 AM, Axel Rasmussen wrote: > The goal of these tracepoints is to be able to debug lock contention > issues. This lock is acquired on most (all?) mmap / munmap / page fault > operations, so a multi-threaded process which does a lot of these can > experience significant contention. > > We trace just before we start acquisition, when the acquisition returns > (whether it succeeded or not), and when the lock is released (or > downgraded). The events are broken out by lock type (read / write). > > The events are also broken out by memcg path. For container-based > workloads, users often think of several processes in a memcg as a single > logical "task", so collecting statistics at this level is useful. > > The end goal is to get latency information. This isn't directly included > in the trace events. Instead, users are expected to compute the time > between "start locking" and "acquire returned", using e.g. synthetic > events or BPF. The benefit we get from this is simpler code. > > Because we use tracepoint_enabled() to decide whether or not to trace, > this patch has effectively no overhead unless tracepoints are enabled at > runtime. If tracepoints are enabled, there is a performance impact, but > how much depends on exactly what e.g. the BPF program does. > > [ rostedt@goodmis.org: in-depth examples of tracepoint_enabled() usage, > and per-cpu-per-context buffer design ]
Great, thanks Steven.
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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