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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:11:21 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        abhishek kulkarni <abhya007@gmail.com>
Cc:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, Ryan Stone <rstone@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-dtrace@freebsd.org" <freebsd-dtrace@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Regarding schedgraph.d
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Yes, this is easy to achieve using an aggregation:
http://dtrace.org/guide/chp-aggs.html

In the on-cpu probe, you would gather that data like this:

@off_cpu[execname, curthread->td_tid] = sum(timestamp -
self->offcpu_timestamp);

Then you can use the printa function to print the data.  If you do this
from a tick-1s probe then the data will be printed every second.


On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:38 PM, abhishek kulkarni <abhya007@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I got some very good inputs from you for writing a script that gives the
> total running time for a particular thread as well as the total time that
> the particular thread was off cpu. That script is working fine. Now, I want
> to extend that script for a system wide performance. I need the "running
> times" and the " off cpu times" for each thread. So, the script should
> summarize the results at the end of the script for each thread. Is it
> possible to achieve that using Dtrace and if yes, how. If no, would it need
> a python like script to summarize the results threadwise. Please find the
> attached script for a single thread.
>
> Regards
> Abhishek Kulkarni
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:48 PM, abhishek kulkarni <abhya007@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks mark. I will go through all the references mentioned. your answer
>> gives a clear picture of how the sched provider differs for FreeBSD.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Abhishek Kulkarni
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 07:40:21PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
>>> > The best that I can offer right now is the Illumos documentation:
>>> >
>>> > http://dtrace.org/guide/chp-sched.html
>>>
>>> I wrote and committed some DTrace provider man pages a little while ago.
>>> The page for the sched provider is here:
>>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dtrace-sched&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current
>>>
>>> >
>>> > The caveat is that the types documented there are not implemented in
>>> > FreeBSD.  Where illumos uses a lwpsinfo_t, FreeBSD uses a struct
>>> thread:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/proc.h?revision=284215&view=markup#l206
>>> >
>>> > psinfo_t is replaced by struct proc.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/proc.h?revision=284215&view=markup#l495
>>> >
>>> > cpuinfo_t* arguments are not implemented and passed as NULL.  You can
>>> > access the current cpu number using the "cpu" variable.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Finally, the schedctl-* probes don't apply to the FreeBSD scheduler and
>>> > therefore are unimplemented.
>>>
>>> I removed them in r281702: our sched provider uses FreeBSD types and
>>> thus is already incompatible with the Solaris/illumos sched provider, so
>>> it didn't make much sense to me to keep them around.
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:30 PM, abhishek kulkarni <abhya007@gmail.com
>>> >
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Thanks Ryan. Those are some very useful tips. Ill get on with trying
>>> all
>>> > > of those and get back If I have some more concerns. Also, could you
>>> be
>>> > > having some document which has some logical description about the
>>> "sched"
>>> > > probes for FreeBSD, which could give details like when is the
>>> particular
>>> > > probe fired, the probe's arguments etc. Thanks again.
>>> > >
>>> > > Regards
>>> > > Abhishek Kulkarni
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:11 PM, abhishek kulkarni <
>>> abhya007@gmail.com>
>>> > >> wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>> Hello Ryan,
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> I was looking to schedgraph.d . I need to modify the script for  a
>>> > >>> single, particular thread. I atleast need to know the thread
>>> transitions,
>>> > >>> as in the context switches for the particular thread and also the
>>> different
>>> > >>> states for a single thread. Could you please help with the filters
>>> that I
>>> > >>> need to add in order to use the script for a single thread or else
>>> suggest
>>> > >>> me  just the nexessary probes that I could use for writing a new
>>> script for
>>> > >>> a single thread .
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> Regards
>>> > >>> Abhishek Kulkarni
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> There are a couple of things that you could filter on, depending on
>>> what
>>> > >> you know about the thread of interest.  The "execname" variable
>>> gives the
>>> > >> name of the current process.  If you're interesting in tracing a
>>> > >> single-threaded process, that would be an option.  Another variable
>>> of
>>> > >> interest would be the "curthread" variable.  This gives a pointer
>>> to the
>>> > >> "struct thread" for the current thread.  One field that you could
>>> trace on
>>> > >> would be curthread->td_tid.  You can use ps to find your thread id
>>> and then
>>> > >> run the script as:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> dtrace -s script.d <tid>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> And in the script, filter with / curthread->td_tid == $1 /.  Another
>>> > >> field that you could use would be curthread->td_name, which
>>> contains the
>>> > >> name of the current thread.  If your application names threads with
>>> > >> "pthreads_set_name_np()", then that name will appear in td_name and
>>> you can
>>> > >> filter based off of that.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> An alternative approach would be to use a thread-local variable.
>>> If you
>>> > >> know that your thread is the only thread that might hit a probe,
>>> you can
>>> > >> set a thread local variable in that probe and filter on it later
>>> on.  For
>>> > >> example, if your thread is the only thread that will call a
>>> function called
>>> > >> foobar() in the kernel, you could do this:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> fbt::foobar:entry
>>> > >> {
>>> > >>   self->interesting = 1;
>>> > >> }
>>> > >>
>>> > >> sched:::off-cpu
>>> > >> / self->interesting /
>>> > >> {
>>> > >>    /* trace interesting data here */
>>> > >> }
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >
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