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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby musiclover » Sun May 14, 2017 3:45 am

Hi Giovanni,
I wrote a function to measure the average usage of CPU. The code is below. Is this correct? Thanks a lot!

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static void CPU_load(BaseSequentialStream *chp) {

  thread_t *tp;

  uint64_t sum=0;
  uint16_t tmp1, tmp2;

  tp = chRegFirstThread();
  do {
    sum += tp->p_stats.cumulative;
    tp = chRegNextThread(tp);
  } while (tp != NULL);
  sum += ch.kernel_stats.m_crit_thd.cumulative;
  sum += ch.kernel_stats.m_crit_isr.cumulative;

  tp = chRegFirstThread();
  do {
    tmp1 = (uint16_t)(tp->p_stats.cumulative*10000/sum);
    chprintf(chp, "%12s %u.%u%%\r\n", tp->p_name, tmp1/100, tmp1%100);
    tp = chRegNextThread(tp);
  } while (tp != NULL);

  tmp1 = (uint16_t)(ch.kernel_stats.m_crit_thd.cumulative*10000/sum);
  tmp2 = (uint16_t)(ch.kernel_stats.m_crit_isr.cumulative*10000/sum);

  chprintf(chp, "thd:%u.%u%%   isr:%u.%u%%\r\n",
      tmp1/100, tmp1%100,tmp2/100, tmp2%100);
  chprintf(chp, "\r\n");
}

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby Giovanni » Sun May 14, 2017 7:04 am

Hi,

It looks OK, it is what I meant. Note that statistics make the operations a bit slower and use more RAM because handling of counters.

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby musiclover » Sun May 14, 2017 9:27 am

Thanks Giovanni and thanks for remind. That code will only be used for testing, and when testing is finished, I'll disable the code and change CH_DBG_STATISTICS to FALSE. :D

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby sntnjrg » Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:11 am

Hi,

Why is it multiplied by 10000?

Thank you.

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby sntnjrg » Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:03 pm

Hi,

I understand the reason for the multiplication by 10000.

When I run the code, I have noticed that the sum of all the percentages of the threads is never the 100%.

When you do the following:

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tmp1 = (uint16_t)(tp->p_stats.cumulative*10000/sum);

Hasn't the value of the cumulative field changed from the one previously added?

What other approach would you recommend to obtain the CPU usage percentage of each thread?

Thank you.

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby Giovanni » Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:03 pm

The system provides only the time spent by each thread as an absolute value (number of clock cycles), converting that in percentage could be subject to rounding errors.

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby sntnjrg » Thu Sep 05, 2019 3:16 pm

Thank you Giovanni for the help and musiclover for the function.

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby steved » Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:51 am

Would there be any unexpected side effects from restarting the measurement by clearing all the measurement counters to zero at some arbitrary point?

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Re: Measuring CPU Usage

Postby Giovanni » Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:17 pm

The system would not be affected, those are only updated.

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