cpuwalk.bt - Sample which CPUs are executing processes.. Uses bpftrace/eBPF.
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Description
This tool samples CPUs at 99 Hertz, then prints a histogram showing which CPUs were active. 99 Hertz is
used to avoid lockstep sampling that would skew results. This tool can help identify if your
application's workload is evenly using the CPUs, or if there is an imbalance problem.
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
Examples
Sample CPUs and print a summary on Ctrl-C:
# cpuwalk.btFields
1st, 2nd
The CPU is shown in the first field, after the "[". Disregard the second field.
3rd A column showing the number of samples for this CPU.
4th This is an ASCII histogram representing the count column.
Name
cpuwalk.bt - Sample which CPUs are executing processes.. Uses bpftrace/eBPF.
Os
Linux
Overhead
This should be negligible.
Requirements
CONFIG_BPF and bpftrace.
See Also
mpstat(1) USER COMMANDS 2018-09-08 cpuwalk.bt(8)
Source
This is from bpftrace.
https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace
Also look in the bpftrace distribution for a companion _examples.txt file containing example usage,
output, and commentary for this tool.
Stability
Unstable - in development.
Synopsis
cpuwalk.bt
