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tracing: Add linear buckets to histogram logic
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2143635
commit de9a48a360b70d5318061cf1237431d1869555e4 Author: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Wed Jul 7 17:36:24 2021 -0400
tracing: Add linear buckets to histogram logic
There's been several times I wished the histogram logic had a "grouping"
feature for the buckets. Currently, each bucket has a size of one. That
is, if you trace the amount of requested allocations, each allocation is
its own bucket, even if you are interested in what allocates 100 bytes or
less, 100 to 200, 200 to 300, etc.
Also, without grouping, it fills up the allocated histogram buckets
quickly. If you are tracking latency, and don't care if something is 200
microseconds off, or 201 microseconds off, but want to track them by say
10 microseconds each. This can not currently be done.
There is a log2 but that grouping get's too big too fast for a lot of
cases.
Introduce a "buckets=SIZE" command to each field where it will record in a
rounded number. For example:
># echo 'hist:keys=bytes_req.buckets=100:sort=bytes_req' > events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger
># cat events/kmem/kmalloc/hist
hist:keys=bytes_req.buckets=100:vals=hitcount:sort=bytes_req.buckets=100:size=2048
[active]
{ bytes_req: ~ 0-99 } hitcount: 3149
{ bytes_req: ~ 100-199 } hitcount: 1468
{ bytes_req: ~ 200-299 } hitcount: 39
{ bytes_req: ~ 300-399 } hitcount: 306
{ bytes_req: ~ 400-499 } hitcount: 364
{ bytes_req: ~ 500-599 } hitcount: 32
{ bytes_req: ~ 600-699 } hitcount: 69
{ bytes_req: ~ 700-799 } hitcount: 37
{ bytes_req: ~ 1200-1299 } hitcount: 16
{ bytes_req: ~ 1400-1499 } hitcount: 30
{ bytes_req: ~ 2000-2099 } hitcount: 6
{ bytes_req: ~ 4000-4099 } hitcount: 2168
{ bytes_req: ~ 5000-5099 } hitcount: 6
Totals:
Hits: 7690
Entries: 13
Dropped: 0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707213921.980359719@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand jmarchan@redhat.com