Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:18:53 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] libperf: Propagate maps only if necessary | From | Adrian Hunter <> |
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On 29/09/22 08:09, Namhyung Kim wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 7:08 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 4:46 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 12:54 AM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 27/09/22 20:28, Namhyung Kim wrote: >>>>> Hi Adrian, >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 12:06 AM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 24/09/22 19:57, Namhyung Kim wrote: >>>>>>> The current code propagate evsel's cpu map settings to evlist when it's >>>>>>> added to an evlist. But the evlist->all_cpus and each evsel's cpus will >>>>>>> be updated in perf_evlist__set_maps() later. No need to do it before >>>>>>> evlist's cpus are set actually. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Actually we discarded this intermediate all_cpus maps at the beginning >>>>>>> of perf_evlist__set_maps(). Let's not do this. It's only needed when >>>>>>> an evsel is added after the evlist cpu maps are set. >>>>>> >>>>>> That might not be true. Consider evlist__fix_hybrid_cpus() which fiddles >>>>>> with evsel->core.cpus and evsel->core.own_cpus after the evsel has been >>>>>> added to the evlist. It can also remove an evsel from the evlist. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your review. I think it's fine to change evsel cpus or to remove >>>>> an evsel from evlist before calling evlist__create_maps(). The function >>>>> will take care of setting evlist's all_cpus from the evsels in the evlist. >>>>> So previous changes in evsel/cpus wouldn't be any special. >>>>> >>>>> After this point, adding a new evsel needs to update evlist all cpus by >>>>> propagating cpu maps. So I think hybrid cpus should be fine. >>>>> Did I miss something? >>>> >>>> I wondered how it might play out if evlist__fix_hybrid_cpus() reduced the >>>> cpus from the target->cpu_list (using perf record -C) , since after this >>>> patch all_cpus always starts with the target->cpu_list instead of an empty >>>> list. But then, in the hybrid case, it puts a dummy event that uses the >>>> target cpu list anyway, so the result is the same. >>>> >>>> I don't know if there are any cases where all_cpus would actually need to >>>> exclude some of the cpus from target->cpu_list. >>> >>> I'm not aware of other cases to reduce cpu list. I think it'd be fine >>> if it has a cpu in the evlist->all_cpus even if it's not used. The evsel >>> should have a correct list anyway and we mostly use the evsel cpus >>> to do the real work. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Namhyung >> >> The affinity changes made it so that we use all_cpus probably more >> often than the evsel CPU maps for real work. The reason being we want >> to avoid IPIs so we do all the work on 1 CPU and then move to the next >> CPU in evlist all_cpus. evsel CPU maps are used to make sure the >> indices are kept accurate - for example, if an uncore event is >> measured with a CPU event: >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/util/evlist.h?h=perf/core#n366 >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/util/evlist.c?h=perf/core#n404 > > Right, I meant it'd check the evsel cpus eventually even if it iterates > on the evlist all_cpus. The evlist_cpu_iterator__next() will skip a > CPU if it's not in the evsel cpus. > > Thanks, > Namhyung
Perhaps an alternative is to be explicit about deferring map propagation e.g.
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c index 19eaea99aa4f..5ce19e62397d 100644 --- a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c +++ b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static void perf_evlist__propagate_maps(struct perf_evlist *evlist) /* Recomputing all_cpus, so start with a blank slate. */ perf_cpu_map__put(evlist->all_cpus); evlist->all_cpus = NULL; + evlist->defer_map_propagation = false; perf_evlist__for_each_evsel(evlist, evsel) __perf_evlist__propagate_maps(evlist, evsel); @@ -81,7 +82,8 @@ void perf_evlist__add(struct perf_evlist *evlist, evsel->idx = evlist->nr_entries; list_add_tail(&evsel->node, &evlist->entries); evlist->nr_entries += 1; - __perf_evlist__propagate_maps(evlist, evsel); + if (!evlist->defer_map_propagation) + __perf_evlist__propagate_maps(evlist, evsel); } void perf_evlist__remove(struct perf_evlist *evlist, @@ -177,9 +179,6 @@ void perf_evlist__set_maps(struct perf_evlist *evlist, evlist->threads = perf_thread_map__get(threads); } - if (!evlist->all_cpus && cpus) - evlist->all_cpus = perf_cpu_map__get(cpus); - perf_evlist__propagate_maps(evlist); } diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h index 6f89aec3e608..dbe0b763f597 100644 --- a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h +++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct perf_evlist { int nr_entries; int nr_groups; bool has_user_cpus; + bool defer_map_propagation; /** * The cpus passed from the command line or all online CPUs by * default. diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 52d254b1530c..1c2523d66a14 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -3975,6 +3975,7 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) rec->evlist = evlist__new(); if (rec->evlist == NULL) return -ENOMEM; + rec->evlist->core.defer_map_propagation = true; err = perf_config(perf_record_config, rec); if (err)
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