Commit-ID:  1db6c3a2144eaf0d8aaeecf46df73106834bad75
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/1db6c3a2144eaf0d8aaeecf46df73106834bad75
Author:     Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:26:32 -0800
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:11:51 -0300

perf top: Check the latency of perf_top__mmap_read()

The latency of perf_top__mmap_read() should be lower than refresh time.
If not, give some hints to reduce the latency.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao....@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516310792-208685-18-git-send-email-kan.li...@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 2b4914f..b7c823b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -889,8 +889,10 @@ static void perf_top__mmap_read(struct perf_top *top)
 {
        bool overwrite = top->record_opts.overwrite;
        struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist;
+       unsigned long long start, end;
        int i;
 
+       start = rdclock();
        if (overwrite)
                perf_evlist__toggle_bkw_mmap(evlist, BKW_MMAP_DATA_PENDING);
 
@@ -901,6 +903,13 @@ static void perf_top__mmap_read(struct perf_top *top)
                perf_evlist__toggle_bkw_mmap(evlist, BKW_MMAP_EMPTY);
                perf_evlist__toggle_bkw_mmap(evlist, BKW_MMAP_RUNNING);
        }
+       end = rdclock();
+
+       if ((end - start) > (unsigned long long)top->delay_secs * NSEC_PER_SEC)
+               ui__warning("Too slow to read ring buffer.\n"
+                           "Please try increasing the period (-c) or\n"
+                           "decreasing the freq (-F) or\n"
+                           "limiting the number of CPUs (-C)\n");
 }
 
 /*

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