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Subject: Re: [BUG] perf report: different reports when run on terminal as
 opposed to script
From: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:05:45 -0400, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Dhaval,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:45:53 -0400, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> As part of a class assignment I have to collect some performance
>>>>> statistics. In order to do so I run
>>>>>
>>>>> perf record -g <the program I have to profile>
>>>>>
>>>>> And in another window, I start 200 threads of the load generator
>>>>> (which is not recorded by perf)
>>>>>
>>>>> This generates me statistics that I expect to see, and I am happy. As
>>>>> this is academia and a class assignment, I need to collect information
>>>>> and analyze it across different setups. Which of course meant I script
>>>>> this whole thing, which basically is
>>>>>
>>>>> for i in all possibilities
>>>>> do
>>>>> perf record -g <the program I have to profile> &
>>>>> WAITPID=$!
>>>>> for j in NR_THREADS
>>>>> do
>>>>> <start load generator> &
>>>>> KILLPID=$!
>>>>> done
>>>>> wait $PID
>>>
>>> You meant $WAITPID, right?
>>>
>>
>> yes. grrr. I changed the name here to WAITPID for it to be clear and
>> that was a fail. (I blame the cold)
>>
>>>
>>>>> kill $KILLPID
>>>
>>> Doesn't it kill the last load generator only?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, this was a bug in me typing the pseudo code. the actual script
>> does "$KILLPID $!"
>
> Okay, so I suspect that it might be affected by the autogroup scheduling
> feature since you said running load generators in another window - I
> guess it's a terminal.  How about running them with setsid?
>

Why would that affect the data collection for the program being
profiled? The time spent (since it is a compute intensive program) in
various functions shouldn't change, correct? (Unless I am missing
something).

/me goes and tries it out

Hmm. OK, so that doesn't help. Still the same.

Thanks!
Dhaval
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