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| author | Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> | 2011-02-14 11:20:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-02-16 13:30:48 +0100 |
| commit | 023695d96ee06f36cf5014e286edcd623e9fb847 (patch) | |
| tree | ff7483b7a1aa0cfd5de95475ed059822d2a35499 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | |
| parent | e5d1367f17ba6a6fed5fd8b74e4d5720923e0c25 (diff) | |
perf tool: Add cgroup support
This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups
(cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor
multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to
monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of
cgroup names.
The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool
finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It
then passes that file descriptor to the kernel.
Example:
$ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
2,368,667,414 cycles test1
2,369,661,459 cycles
<not counted> cycles test2
1.001856890 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d590290.825bdf0a.7d0a.4890@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index e032716c839b..5a520f825295 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ Do not update the builid cache. This saves some overhead in situations where the information in the perf.data file (which includes buildids) is sufficient. +-G name,...:: +--cgroup name,...:: +monitor only in the container (cgroup) called "name". This option is available only +in per-cpu mode. The cgroup filesystem must be mounted. All threads belonging to +container "name" are monitored when they run on the monitored CPUs. Multiple cgroups +can be provided. Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first cgroup +to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is possible to provide +an empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have +corresponding events, i.e., they always refer to events defined earlier on the command +line. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] |