Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile

[Eric Dumazet]

Denys Fedoryshchenko a écrit :
> On Thursday 28 August 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 2) You maybe have a bad program that do something expensive relative to
> > kernel time services.
> No, process list is very short, it is custom semi-embedded linux distro i 
> made, so i know each process running there.  Here is process list (kernel 
> processes/threads and running shell(busybox ash) removed) 
>
> 1 root     /bin/sh /init
>  1119 root     init
>  2451 root     /sbin/syslogd -R 80.83.17.2
>  2453 root     /sbin/klogd
>  3168 squid    /usr/sbin/zebra -d
>  3175 squid    /usr/sbin/ripd -d
>  3195 root     /usr/sbin/snmpd -c /config/snmpd.conf
>  3208 root     udhcpd /config/udhcp.office.conf -S
>  3550 root     /usr/sbin/sshd -b /etc/banner
>  3566 root     /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>  3567 root     /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
>  3570 root     /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
>  4055 root     /usr/sbin/sshd -b /etc/banner

OK, please try oprofile with call graph analysis.

> > kernel already provides nanosecond resolution :)
> > Check SO_TIMESTAMPNS and SCM_TIMESTAMPNS
> Maybe this function really must be "heavy" then.

Nope... the contrary :)

Kernel timestamping has nanosec resolution.

SO_TIMESTAMP needs a divide (by 1000), while SO_TIMESTAMPNS is native.





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