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[Bug translator/10788] -t statistics report on derived statement probes instead of mark probes


------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2009-10-17 12:16 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> Yes, if that was the case, then having more granular statistics would be nice to
> have. But in this case you can see the variance even with really simple probes
> like: stap -t -e 'probe syscall.* { printf(".") }' -c 'sleep 5'
> [... dots ...]
> probe syscall.* (<input>:1:1), hits: 1236852, cycles: 440min/533avg/20108max
> Maybe this deserves its own bug report if it doesn't exist yet.

I don't think so -- the average here is close to the minimum, over a million+
hits.  The maximum translates to a ~hundred cache misses, which is plausible
considering the amount of code & data involved in printf().


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