[PATCH 0/2] Boottime: measure bootloader and kernel bootup time

[Lee Jones]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

> On 10:04 Thu 15 Nov     , Lee Jones wrote:
> > This patchset supplies a new tool which measures boottime inclusive
> > of bootloader involvement. It seems to be accurate and adds no
> > latency to the booting of the system.
> > 
> > In the first round of testing we booted the kernel 3 times each with
> > boottime enabled and disabled. Actually, when it was disabled, the
> > code was completely removed from the kernel source and the kernel was
> > rebuilt. The difference between present & enabled and completely
> > removed was very little indeed. In fact, averaging out the 3 runs of
> > each, when boottime was enabled the system booted 4ms _faster_, go
> > figure!
> > 
> >              Enabled    Disabled
> >   1st run    2.983093   2.985168
> >   2nd run    2.973266   2.971801
> >   3rd run    2.975402   2.987304
> >   Average    2.977254   2.981424   -0.004171 (-4ms)
> > 
> > 
> > For the next round of testing, we delayed the bootloader for varying
> > amounts of time, then started to remove key components from kernel
> > functionality to see if the boottime system would pick-up on them.
> > 
> >   /* Hang around in the bootloader for a while. */
> >   $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/boottime/summary 
> >     kernel: 42864 msecs
> >     total: 42864 msecs
> >     kernel: cpu0 system: 56% idle: 43% iowait: 0% irq: 0% 
> >             cpu1 system: 4% idle: 95% iowait: 0% irq: 0%
> > 
> >   /* Hang around in the bootloader for a smaller amount of time. */
> >     kernel: 12351 msecs
> >     total: 12351 msecs
> >     kernel: cpu0 system: 56% idle: 43% iowait: 0% irq: 0% 
> >             cpu1 system: 2% idle: 97% iowait: 0% irq: 0%
> >   
> >   /* Instant boot. (1st run) */
> >     kernel: 7833 msecs
> >     total: 7833 msecs
> >     kernel: cpu0 system: 55% idle: 44% iowait: 0% irq: 0% 
> >             cpu1 system: 3% idle: 96% iowait: 0% irq: 0%
> > 
> >   /* Instant boot. (2nd run) */
> >     kernel: 7817 msecs
> >     total: 7817 msecs
> >     kernel: cpu0 system: 53% idle: 46% iowait: 0% irq: 0% 
> >             cpu1 system: 8% idle: 91% iowait: 0% irq: 0%
> > 
> >   /* Instant boot. (3rd run) */
> >     kernel: 7747 msecs
> >     total: 7747 msecs
> >     kernel: cpu0 system: 56% idle: 42% iowait: 0% irq: 0% 
> >             cpu1 system: 2% idle: 97% iowait: 0% irq: 0%
> 7/8s? on a u9500 wow it's really slow

No, this is a u8500.

> I do 2/3s here

Really? You installed this quick.

Are you sure you did it correctly?

Don't forget, this times from power-on to userspace.

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog