-I N 有 perf stat 选项“interval-print”,其中 N 是每 N 毫秒 (N>=10) 进行间隔计数器打印的毫秒间隔:http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/perf-stat.1.html
-I msecs, --interval-print msecs
Print count deltas every N milliseconds (minimum: 10ms) The
overhead percentage could be high in some cases, for instance
with small, sub 100ms intervals. Use with caution. example: perf
stat -I 1000 -e cycles -a sleep 5
For best results it is usually a good idea to use it with interval
mode like -I 1000, as the bottleneck of workloads can change often.
还有机器可读形式的导入结果,-I第一个字段是日期时间:
使用 -x,perf stat 能够输出非 CSV 格式的输出...可选的 usec 时间戳,以秒为单位(使用 -I xxx)
vmstat, sysstat-family toolsiostat, mpstat, etc 定期打印是 perf stat 的-I 1000(每秒),例如系统范围(添加 -A 到单独的 cpu 计数器):
perf stat -a -I 1000
该选项在 builtin-stat.c http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c?v=4.8 __run_perf_stat 函数中实现
531 static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
532 {
533 int interval = stat_config.interval;
对于带有一些程序参数(forks=1)的perf stat -I 1000,例如perf stat -I 1000 sleep 10有间隔循环(ts是转换为struct timespec的毫秒间隔):
639 enable_counters();
641 if (interval) {
642 while (!waitpid(child_pid, &status, WNOHANG)) {
643 nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
644 process_interval();
645 }
646 }
666 disable_counters();
对于系统范围的硬件性能监视器计数和forks=0 的变体,还有其他间隔循环
658 enable_counters();
659 while (!done) {
660 nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
661 if (interval)
662 process_interval();
663 }
666 disable_counters();
process_interval() http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c?v=4.8#L347 来自同一文件使用 read_counters(); 循环事件列表并调用 read_counter() 其中 loops over 所有已知线程和所有 cpu 并启动实际读取功能:
306 for (thread = 0; thread < nthreads; thread++) {
307 for (cpu = 0; cpu < ncpus; cpu++) {
...
310 count = perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread);
311 if (perf_evsel__read(counter, cpu, thread, count))
312 return -1;
perf_evsel__read 是程序仍在运行时读取的真正计数器:
1207 int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu, int thread,
1208 struct perf_counts_values *count)
1209 {
1210 memset(count, 0, sizeof(*count));
1211
1212 if (FD(evsel, cpu, thread) < 0)
1213 return -EINVAL;
1214
1215 if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), count, sizeof(*count)) < 0)
1216 return -errno;
1217
1218 return 0;
1219 }