[PATCH v3 00/35] PMU refactoring and improvements
Liang, Kan
kan.liang at linux.intel.com
Fri May 26 11:17:04 PDT 2023
On 2023-05-24 6:17 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> Separate the code in pmu.[ch] into the set/list of PMUs and the code
> for a particular PMU. Move the set/list of PMUs code into
> pmus.[ch]. Clean up hybrid code and remove hybrid PMU list, it is
> sufficient to scan PMUs looking for core ones. Add core PMU list and
> perf_pmus__scan_core that just reads core PMUs. Switch code that skips
> non-core PMUs during a perf_pmus__scan, to use the
> perf_pmus__scan_core variant. Don't scan sysfs for PMUs if all such
> PMUs have been previously scanned/loaded. Scanning just core PMUs, for
> the cases it is applicable, can improve the sysfs reading time by more
> than 4 fold on my laptop, as servers generally have many more uncore
> PMUs the improvement there should be larger:
>
> ```
> $ perf bench internals pmu-scan -i 1000
> Computing performance of sysfs PMU event scan for 1000 times
> Average core PMU scanning took: 989.231 usec (+- 1.535 usec)
> Average PMU scanning took: 4309.425 usec (+- 74.322 usec)
> ```
>
> The patch "perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus" moves and renames a lot of
> functions, and is consequently large. The changes are trivial, but
> kept together to keep the overall number of patches more reasonable.
>
Other than the small suggestion in patch 16, the patch set looks good to
me. Thanks Ian!
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang at linux.intel.com>
Thanks,
Kan
> v3. Address fixing hybrid user specified CPU maps by doing it in
> propagate maps. Remove nearly all references to cpu_core/cpu_atom
> in particular by removing is_pmu_hybrid - hybrid is now >1 core
> PMU. Addresses comments by Kan and Namhyung.
> v2. Address Kan's review comments wrt "cycles" -> "cycles:P" and
> "uncore_pmus" -> "other_pmus".
>
> Ian Rogers (35):
> perf cpumap: Add intersect function
> perf tests: Organize cpu_map tests into a single suite
> perf cpumap: Add equal function
> libperf cpumap: Add "any CPU"/dummy test function
> perf pmu: Detect ARM and hybrid PMUs with sysfs
> perf pmu: Add is_core to pmu
> perf evsel: Add is_pmu_core inorder to interpret own_cpus
> perf pmu: Add CPU map for "cpu" PMUs
> perf evlist: Propagate user CPU maps intersecting core PMU maps
> perf evlist: Allow has_user_cpus to be set on hybrid
> perf target: Remove unused hybrid value
> perf tools: Warn if no user requested CPUs match PMU's CPUs
> perf evlist: Remove evlist__warn_hybrid_group
> perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default
> perf evlist: Reduce scope of evlist__has_hybrid
> perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_mounted
> perf pmu: Rewrite perf_pmu__has_hybrid to avoid list
> perf x86: Iterate hybrid PMUs as core PMUs
> perf topology: Avoid hybrid list for hybrid topology
> perf evsel: Compute is_hybrid from PMU being core
> perf header: Avoid hybrid PMU list in write_pmu_caps
> perf metrics: Remove perf_pmu__is_hybrid use
> perf stat: Avoid hybrid PMU list
> perf mem: Avoid hybrid PMU list
> perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_pmus list
> perf pmus: Prefer perf_pmu__scan over perf_pmus__for_each_pmu
> perf x86 mem: minor refactor to is_mem_loads_aux_event
> perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus
> perf pmus: Split pmus list into core and other
> perf pmus: Allow just core PMU scanning
> perf pmus: Avoid repeated sysfs scanning
> perf pmus: Ensure all PMUs are read for find_by_type
> perf pmus: Add function to return count of core PMUs
> perf pmus: Remove perf_pmus__has_hybrid
> perf pmu: Remove is_pmu_hybrid
>
> tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c | 61 +++
> tools/lib/perf/evlist.c | 25 +-
> tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h | 9 +
> tools/lib/perf/include/perf/cpumap.h | 14 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/hybrid.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c | 5 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c | 25 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evsel.c | 27 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/mem-events.c | 17 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c | 15 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c | 5 +-
> tools/perf/bench/pmu-scan.c | 60 +--
> tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 9 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-list.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-mem.c | 9 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 29 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 14 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 10 +-
> tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 11 +-
> tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c | 92 ++++-
> tools/perf/tests/event_groups.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 15 +-
> tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c | 9 +-
> tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c | 14 +-
> tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 4 +-
> tools/perf/tests/topology.c | 16 +-
> tools/perf/util/Build | 2 -
> tools/perf/util/cpumap.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/cpumap.h | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/cputopo.c | 12 +-
> tools/perf/util/env.c | 5 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c | 162 --------
> tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h | 15 -
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 64 +++-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 9 +-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 60 +--
> tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 3 -
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 27 +-
> tools/perf/util/mem-events.c | 25 +-
> tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 9 +-
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 25 +-
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/pfm.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c | 52 ---
> tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h | 32 --
> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 483 ++----------------------
> tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 25 +-
> tools/perf/util/pmus.c | 465 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> tools/perf/util/pmus.h | 15 +-
> tools/perf/util/print-events.c | 15 +-
> tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources | 1 -
> tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 19 +-
> tools/perf/util/target.h | 1 -
> 60 files changed, 1002 insertions(+), 1089 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h
>
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