tp: speed up loading of perfetto exports Loading a perfetto export spent most of its time copying column data out of the archive and doing work at EOF which most sessions never use. - Alias numeric column buffers directly in the (mmap-backed) trace blob instead of copying them: Arrow buffers are aligned, so when the values are contiguous Slab::FromShared wraps them with copy-on-write semantics in FlexVector. Pages are only faulted in when queried. - Coalesce adjacent slices of the same TraceBlob in TraceBlobViewReader so tables spanning ReadTrace chunk boundaries stay contiguous (and therefore zero-copy). - Compute trace bounds lazily via __intrinsic_trace_start/end instead of rebuilding a _trace_bounds table, and use the first row of ts-sorted tables rather than scanning them. - Build the static dataframe indexes on first use (thread-safely via std::call_once) rather than sorting them all at EOF. - Skip DeobfuscationTracker work when there are no mapping packets. On a 285 MB Android trace (532 MB export, 1M slices) export load goes from 540 ms to 270 ms (raw proto load: 6.2 s).
Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons and tools which use tracing to help developers understand the behaviour of complex systems and root-cause functional and performance issues on client and embedded systems.
It is a production-grade tool that is the default tracing system for the Android operating system and the Chromium browser.
Perfetto is not a single tool, but a collection of components that work together:
Perfetto was designed to be a versatile and powerful tracing system for a wide range of use cases.
ftrace, allowing you to visualize scheduling, syscalls, interrupts, and custom kernel tracepoints on a timeline.chrome://tracing. Use it to debug and root-cause issues in the browser, V8, and Blink.We‘ve designed our documentation to guide you to the right information as quickly as possible, whether you’re a newcomer to performance analysis or an experienced developer.
New to tracing? If you're unfamiliar with concepts like tracing and profiling, start here:
Ready to dive in? Our “Getting Started” guide is the main entry point for all users. It will help you find the right tutorials and documentation for your specific needs:
Want the full overview? For a comprehensive look at what Perfetto is, why it's useful, and who uses it, see our main documentation page:
For users interested in the Debian distribution of Perfetto, the official source of truth and packaging efforts are maintained at Debian Perfetto Salsa Repository
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