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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:13 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>>> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct list_head, rotation_list);
>>
>> Why do you keep the rotation list? The only use seems to be:
>>
>>
>>> +void perf_cpu_hrtimer_cancel(int cpu)
>>> +{
>>> + struct list_head *head = &__get_cpu_var(rotation_list);
>>> + struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx, *tmp;
>>> + unsigned long flags;
>>> +
>>> + if (WARN_ON(cpu != smp_processor_id()))
>>> + return;
>>> +
>>> + local_irq_save(flags);
>>> +
>>> + list_for_each_entry_safe(cpuctx, tmp, head, rotation_list) {
>>> + if (cpuctx->hrtimer_active) {
>>> + hrtimer_cancel(&cpuctx->hrtimer);
>>> + cpuctx->hrtimer_active = 0;
>>> + }
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> + local_irq_restore(flags);
>>> +}
>>
>> Which is weird, why not use the existing for-each-pmu loop in
>> perf_event_exit_cpu_context() ? Or something similar to iterate all
>> extant PMUs and thus their cpuctxs?
>>
> True. That would probably work too.
>
Note however that the rotation_list is still used in perf_event_task_tick()
to iterate over the ctx which needs unthrottling. We would have to switch
that loop over to a for-each-pmu() which would necessary incur more
iterations as it would include all the SW PMUs.


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