Re: Benchmarks of kernel tracing options 2 (ftrace, lttng and perf)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 17 2010 - 16:41:54 EST


On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 16:31 -0500, Douglas Santos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a response to a benchmark, submitted a few weeks ago, comparing kernel
> tracing options.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/28/422
>
> We followed the methodology described in the link bellow,
> but using the shellscripts posted there to reproduce autotest scripts.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/28/261
>
> We disabled the extra syscall tracing on lttng, for a fair comparison.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/28/290
>
> Average results with tracing "on":
>
> lttng: 220 ns
> ftrace: 260 ns

Heh, so ftrace got worse with the new kernel?

-- Steve

> perf: 740 ns
>
>
> E5405 system
> kernel 2.6.36
>
> -lttng 0.239 + 0.19.2modules + sys_getuid tracepoint + sys_getuid probe
> + remove syscall_trace
>
> -ftrace and perf + sys_getuid tracepoint


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