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rtla-osnoise-hist - Display a histogram of the osnoise tracer samples

rtla osnoise hist [OPTIONS]

The rtla osnoise tool is an interface for the osnoise tracer. The osnoise tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads read the time in a loop while with preemption, softirq and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all the sources of operating system noise during its execution. The osnoise's tracer threads take note of the delta between each time read, along with an interference counter of all sources of interference. At the end of each period, the osnoise tracer displays a summary of the results.

The rtla osnoise hist tool collects all osnoise:sample_threshold occurrence in a histogram, displaying the results in a user-friendly way. The tool also allows many configurations of the osnoise tracer and the collection of the tracer output.

-a, --auto us

Set the automatic trace mode. This mode sets some commonly used options while debugging the system. It is equivalent to use -s us -T 1 -t.


-p, --period us

Set the osnoise tracer period in microseconds.


-r, --runtime us

Set the osnoise tracer runtime in microseconds.


-s, --stop us

Stop the trace if a single sample is higher than the argument in microseconds. If -T is set, it will also save the trace to the output.


-S, --stop-total us

Stop the trace if the total sample is higher than the argument in microseconds. If -T is set, it will also save the trace to the output.


-T, --threshold us

Specify the minimum delta between two time reads to be considered noise. The default threshold is 5 us.


-b, --bucket-size N

Set the histogram bucket size (default 1).


-E, --entries N

Set the number of entries of the histogram (default 256).


--no-header

Do not print header.


--no-summary

Do not print summary.


--no-index

Do not print index.


--with-zeros

Print zero only entries.


-c, --cpus cpu-list

Set the osnoise tracer to run the sample threads in the cpu-list.


-d, --duration time[s|m|h|d]

Set the duration of the session.


-D, --debug

Print debug info.


-t, --trace[=file]

Save the stopped trace to [file|osnoise_trace.txt].


-e, --event sys:event

Enable an event in the trace (-t) session. The argument can be a specific event, e.g., -e sched:sched_switch, or all events of a system group, e.g., -e sched. Multiple -e are allowed. It is only active when -t or -a are set.


--filter <filter>

Filter the previous -e sys:event event with <filter>. For further information about event filtering see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/events.html#event-filtering.


Enable a trace event trigger to the previous -e sys:event. If the hist: trigger is activated, the output histogram will be automatically saved to a file named system_event_hist.txt. For example, the command:

rtla <command> <mode> -t -e osnoise:irq_noise --trigger="hist:key=desc,duration/1000:sort=desc,duration/1000:vals=hitcount"

Will automatically save the content of the histogram associated to osnoise:irq_noise event in osnoise_irq_noise_hist.txt.

For further information about event trigger see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/events.html#event-triggers.


-P, --priority o:prio|r:prio|f:prio|d:runtime:period

Set scheduling parameters to the osnoise tracer threads, the format to set the priority are:
  • o:prio - use SCHED_OTHER with prio;
  • r:prio - use SCHED_RR with prio;
  • f:prio - use SCHED_FIFO with prio;
  • d:runtime[us|ms|s]:period[us|ms|s] - use SCHED_DEADLINE with runtime and period in nanoseconds.



-h, --help

Print help menu.


In the example below, osnoise tracer threads are set to run with real-time priority FIFO:1, on CPUs 0-11, for 900ms at each period (1s by default). The reason for reducing the runtime is to avoid starving the rtla tool. The tool is also set to run for one minute. The output histogram is set to group outputs in buckets of 10us and 25 entries:

[root@f34 ~/]# rtla osnoise hist -P F:1 -c 0-11 -r 900000 -d 1M -b 10 -E 25
# RTLA osnoise histogram
# Time unit is microseconds (us)
# Duration:   0 00:01:00
Index   CPU-000   CPU-001   CPU-002   CPU-003   CPU-004   CPU-005   CPU-006   CPU-007   CPU-008   CPU-009   CPU-010   CPU-011
0         42982     46287     51779     53740     52024     44817     49898     36500     50408     50128     49523     52377
10        12224      8356      2912       878      2667     10155      4573     18894      4214      4836      5708      2413
20            8         5        12         2        13        24        20        41        29        53        39        39
30            1         1         0         0        10         3         6        19        15        31        30        38
40            0         0         0         0         0         4         2         7         2         3         8        11
50            0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         1         1         2
over:         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0
count:    55215     54649     54703     54620     54714     55003     54499     55461     54668     55052     55309     54880
min:          0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0
avg:          0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0         0
max:         30        30        20        20        30        40        40        40        40        50        50        50


rtla-osnoise(1), rtla-osnoise-top(1)

osnoise tracer documentation: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/osnoise-tracer.html>

Written by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>

Report bugs to <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> and <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>

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