NDLI: IntroPerf:transparent context-sensitive multi-layer performance inference using system stack traces

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Author	Xu, Dongyan Zhang, Xiangyu Rhee, Junghwan Kim, Chung Hwan Zhang, Hui Arora, Nipun Jiang, Guofei
Abstract	Performance bugs are frequently observed in commodity software. While profilers or source code-based tools can be used at development stage where a program is diagnosed in a well-defined environment, many performance bugs survive such a stage and affect production runs. OS kernel-level tracers are commonly used in post-development diagnosis due to their independence from programs and libraries; however, they lack detailed program-specific metrics to reason about performance problems such as function latencies and program contexts. In this paper, we propose a novel performance inference system, called IntroPerf, that generates fine-grained performance information -- like that from application profiling tools -- transparently by leveraging OS tracers that are widely available in most commodity operating systems. With system stack traces as input, IntroPerf enables transparent context-sensitive performance inference, and diagnoses application performance in a multi-layered scope ranging from user functions to the kernel. Evaluated with various performance bugs in multiple open source software projects, IntroPerf automatically ranks potential internal and external root causes of performance bugs with high accuracy without any prior knowledge about or instrumentation on the subject software. Our results show IntroPerf's effectiveness as a lightweight performance introspection tool for post-development diagnosis.
Starting Page	235
Ending Page	247
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635999
DOI	10.1145/2637364.2592008
Journal	ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PERV)
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-01-10
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Performance inference Context-sensitive performance analysis Stack trace analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software

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