The --idle-hist option is to analyze system idle state so which process
makes cpu to go idle. If this option is specified, non-idle events will
be skipped and processes switching to/from idle will be shown.
This option is mostly useful when used with --summary(-only) option. In
the idle-time summary view, idle time is accounted to previous thread
which is run before idle task.
The example output looks like following:
Idle-time summary
comm parent sched-out idle-time min-idle avg-idle max-idle stddev migrations
(count) (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec) %
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rcu_preempt[7] 2 95 550.872 0.011 5.798 23.146 7.63 0
migration/1[16] 2 1 15.558 15.558 15.558 15.558 0.00 0
khugepaged[39] 2 1 3.062 3.062 3.062 3.062 0.00 0
kworker/0:1H[124] 2 2 4.728 0.611 2.364 4.116 74.12 0
systemd-journal[167] 1 1 4.510 4.510 4.510 4.510 0.00 0
kworker/u16:3[558] 2 13 74.737 0.080 5.749 12.960 21.96 0
irq/34-iwlwifi[628] 2 21 118.403 0.032 5.638 23.990 24.00 0
kworker/u17:0[673] 2 1 3.523 3.523 3.523 3.523 0.00 0
dbus-daemon[722] 1 1 6.743 6.743 6.743 6.743 0.00 0
ifplugd[741] 1 1 58.826 58.826 58.826 58.826 0.00 0
wpa_supplicant[1490] 1 1 13.302 13.302 13.302 13.302 0.00 0
wpa_actiond[1492] 1 2 4.064 0.168 2.032 3.896 91.72 0
dockerd[1500] 1 1 0.055 0.055 0.055 0.055 0.00 0
...
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208144755.16673-6-namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161213080632.19099-2-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Merged fix sent by Namhyumg, as posted in the second Link: tag ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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