Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2014 09:20:02 -0400 | From | Don Zickus <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf: Add dcacheline sort |
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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:25:45PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:24:41PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:02:43PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 04:09:59PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > >> > +#define CACHE_LINESIZE 64 > > > >> I had something similar to your patch here in my original series for > > > >> perf mem, but I never pushed it. > > > >> I think this is a useful feature to have. > > > >> However, I don't think you can hardcode the cache line size to 64. > > > >> This is generic > > > >> code. There may be architectures where the line size is different from 64. > > > >> So I think you should add an option to change the default line size or provide > > > >> an arch-specific definition. > > > > > > > > # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/coherency_line_size > > > > 64 > > > Excellent, then we should use that! > > > > Would it make sense to create an accessory function that sets the size in > > util/cpumap.c and provides it as an inline from util/cpumap.h? > > sounds good, > > btw so far I'll take patches 1-4 (after getting changelog update) > and expecting v2 for 5,6 ;-)
Ok. Thanks! What needs to be done for patch 5? I have a patch 5.5?? that does the cachline calculation that Stephane requested. I just have to find a way to dynamically handle the symbol lengths on output (and fix that hang you see).
Cheers, Don
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