Re: Timing overhead and Linux clock sources

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:11:51PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > FYI, I am planning to go ahead and package this tool in /contrib for PG
> > 9.3.
>
> Isn't this exactly what we already did, in 9.2, in the form of
> contrib/pg_test_timing?

Sorry, not sure how I missed that commit.  Anyway, I am attaching a
patch for 9.3 that I think improves the output of the tool, plus adds
some C comments.

The new output has the lowest duration times first:

    Testing timing overhead for 3 seconds.
    Per loop time including overhead: 41.31 nsec
    Histogram of timing durations:
    < usec   % of total      count
         1     95.87135   69627856
         2      4.12759    2997719
         4      0.00086        628
         8      0.00018        133
        16      0.00001          5
        32      0.00000          1

This should make the output clearer to eyeball for problems --- a good
timing has a high percentage on the first line, rather than on the last
line.

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