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PERF-DIFF(1) perf Manual PERF-DIFF(1)
perf-diff - Read perf.data files and display the differential
profile
perf diff [baseline file] [data file1] [[data file2] ... ]
This command displays the performance difference amongst two or
more perf.data files captured via perf record.
If no parameters are passed it will assume perf.data.old and
perf.data.
The differential profile is displayed only for events matching
both specified perf.data files.
If no parameters are passed the samples will be sorted by dso and
symbol. As the perf.data files could come from different
binaries, the symbols addresses could vary. So perf diff is based
on the comparison of the files and symbols name.
-D, --dump-raw-trace
Dump raw trace in ASCII.
--kallsyms=<file>
kallsyms pathname
-m, --modules
Load module symbols. WARNING: use only with -k and LIVE
kernel
-d, --dsos=
Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
file://filename entries. This option will affect the
percentage of the Baseline/Delta column. See --percentage for
more info.
-C, --comms=
Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands
file://filename entries. This option will affect the
percentage of the Baseline/Delta column. See --percentage for
more info.
-S, --symbols=
Only consider these symbols. CSV that understands
file://filename entries. This option will affect the
percentage of the Baseline/Delta column. See --percentage for
more info.
-s, --sort=
Sort by key(s): pid, comm, dso, symbol, cpu, parent, srcline.
Please see description of --sort in the perf-report man page.
-t, --field-separator=
Use a special separator character and don’t pad with spaces,
replacing all occurrences of this separator in symbol names
(and other output) with a . character, that thus it’s the
only non valid separator.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose, for instance, show the raw counts in addition to
the diff.
-q, --quiet
Do not show any warnings or messages. (Suppress -v)
-f, --force
Don’t do ownership validation.
--symfs=<directory>
Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
-b, --baseline-only
Show only items with match in baseline.
-c, --compute
Differential computation selection - delta, ratio, wdiff,
cycles, delta-abs (default is delta-abs). Default can be
changed using diff.compute config option. See COMPARISON
METHODS section for more info.
--cycles-hist
Report a histogram and the standard deviation for cycles
data. It can help us to judge if the reported cycles data is
noisy or not. This option should be used with -c cycles.
-p, --period
Show period values for both compared hist entries.
-F, --formula
Show formula for given computation.
-o, --order
Specify compute sorting column number. 0 means sorting by
baseline overhead and 1 (default) means sorting by computed
value of column 1 (data from the first file other base
baseline). Values more than 1 can be used only if enough data
files are provided. The default value can be set using the
diff.order config option.
--percentage
Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered
entries. Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or
--symbols options.
"relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
the original value before and after the filter is applied.
--time
Analyze samples within given time window. It supports time
percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
a%/n,b%/m,... or a%-b%,c%-%d,....
For example:
Select the second 10% time slice to diff:
perf diff --time 10%/2
Select from 0% to 10% time slice to diff:
perf diff --time 0%-10%
Select the first and the second 10% time slices to diff:
perf diff --time 10%/1,10%/2
Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices to diff:
perf diff --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
It also supports analyzing samples within a given time window
<start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If 'start'
is not given (i.e. time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at
the beginning of the file. If stop time is not given (i.e. time
string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes to the end of the file.
Multiple ranges can be separated by spaces, which requires the argument
to be quoted e.g. --time "1234.567,1234.789 1235,"
Time string is'a1.b1,c1.d1:a2.b2,c2.d2'. Use ':' to separate timestamps
for different perf.data files.
For example, we get the timestamp information from 'perf script'.
perf script -i perf.data.old
mgen 13940 [000] 3946.361400: ...
perf script -i perf.data
mgen 13940 [000] 3971.150589 ...
perf diff --time 3946.361400,:3971.150589,
It analyzes the perf.data.old from the timestamp 3946.361400 to
the end of perf.data.old and analyzes the perf.data from the
timestamp 3971.150589 to the end of perf.data.
--cpu
Only diff samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple
CPUs can be provided as a comma-separated list with no space:
0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to
report samples on all CPUs.
--pid=
Only diff samples for given process ID (comma separated
list).
--tid=
Only diff samples for given thread ID (comma separated list).
--stream
Enable hot streams comparison. Stream can be a callchain
which is aggregated by the branch records from samples.
The comparison is governed by the baseline file. The baseline
perf.data file is iterated for samples. All other perf.data files
specified on the command line are searched for the baseline
sample pair. If the pair is found, specified computation is made
and result is displayed.
All samples from non-baseline perf.data files, that do not match
any baseline entry, are displayed with empty space within
baseline column and possible computation results (delta) in their
related column.
Example files samples: - file A with samples f1, f2, f3, f4, f6 -
file B with samples f2, f4, f5 - file C with samples f1, f2, f5
Example output: x - computation takes place for pair b - baseline
sample percentage
• perf diff A B C
baseline/A compute/B compute/C samples
---------------------------------------
b x f1
b x x f2
b f3
b x f4
b f6
x x f5
• perf diff B A C
baseline/B compute/A compute/C samples
---------------------------------------
b x x f2
b x f4
b x f5
x x f1
x f3
x f6
• perf diff C B A
baseline/C compute/B compute/A samples
---------------------------------------
b x f1
b x x f2
b x f5
x f3
x x f4
x f6
delta
If specified the Delta column is displayed with value d computed
as:
d = A->period_percent - B->period_percent
with: - A/B being matching hist entry from data/baseline file
specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
• period_percent being the % of the hist entry period value
within single data file
• with filtering by -C, -d and/or -S, period_percent might be
changed relative to how entries are filtered. Use
--percentage=absolute to prevent such fluctuation.
delta-abs
Same as 'delta` method, but sort the result with the absolute
values.
ratio
If specified the Ratio column is displayed with value r computed
as:
r = A->period / B->period
with: - A/B being matching hist entry from data/baseline file
specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
• period being the hist entry period value
wdiff:WEIGHT-B,WEIGHT-A
If specified the Weighted diff column is displayed with value d
computed as:
d = B->period * WEIGHT-A - A->period * WEIGHT-B
• A/B being matching hist entry from data/baseline file
specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
• period being the hist entry period value
• WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user supplied weights in the the -c
option behind : separator like -c wdiff:1,2.
• WEIGHT-A being the weight of the data file
• WEIGHT-B being the weight of the baseline data file
cycles
If specified the [Program Block Range] Cycles Diff column is
displayed. It displays the cycles difference of same program
basic block amongst two perf.data. The program basic block is the
code between two branches.
[Program Block Range] indicates the range of a program basic
block. Source line is reported if it can be found otherwise uses
symbol+offset instead.
perf-record(1), perf-report(1)
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Linux (in Linux source tree)) project. Information about the
project can be found at
⟨https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the
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