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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:38:04 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Cc:        =?gb2312?q?=C7=F1=BD=A3?= <qj@huawei.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.
Message-ID:  <200810070938.04673.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <004001c92871$fdec0a10$01000001@china.huawei.com>
References:  <004001c92871$fdec0a10$01000001@china.huawei.com>

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On Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:44:00 am =C7=F1=BD=A3 wrote:
> Hi, folks,
> =20
> I did kernel profiling when a single thread client sends UDP packets to a
> single thread server on the same machine.
> =20
> In the output kernel profile, the first few kernel functions that consumes
> the most CPU time are listed below:
> =20
> granularity: each sample hit covers 16 byte(s) for 0.01% of 25.68 seconds
>=20
>   %   cumulative   self              self     total
>  time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
>  42.4      10.88    10.88        0  100.00%           __mcount [1]
>  36.1      20.14     9.26 17937541     0.00     0.00  spinlock_exit [4]
>   4.2      21.22     1.08  3145728     0.00     0.00  in_cksum_skip [40]
>   1.8      21.68     0.45  7351987     0.00     0.00  generic_copyin [43]
>   1.1      21.96     0.29  3146028     0.00     0.00  generic_copyout [48]
>   1.0      22.21     0.24  2108904     0.00     0.00  Xint0x80_syscall [3]
>   0.8      22.42     0.21  6292131     0.00     0.00  uma_zalloc_arg [46]
>   0.8      22.62     0.20  1048576     0.00     0.00  soreceive_generic [=
9]
>
> It is very strange that spinlock_exit consumes over 36% CPU time while it
> seems a very simple function.

It's because the intr_restore() re-enables interrupts and the resulting tim=
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spent executing the handlers for any pending interrupts are attributed to=20
spinlock_exit().

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John Baldwin



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