From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
acme@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf: Adding sysfs group format attribute for pmu device
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:19:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327699182.2446.177.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F231256.8080905@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 13:08 -0800, Corey Ashford wrote:
> s an example, the IBM PowerEN processor has roughly 20 different PMU's
> on it. Some of those PMU's are quite complex and divide their events up
> into subsets, each with different fields. For example, some events may
> have a PID matching field, and others may have an bus number matching
> field, or matching mode field, etc. The fields are different widths,
> and may overlap in the config/1/2 space.
>
> It seems that there are two approaches you could take:
>
> 1) Keep your format, but allow the fields to overlap in the bit space.
> For example:
>
> "/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7"
> "/sys/...<dev>/format/pidmatch" contains "config:8-15"
> "/sys/...<dev>/format/busmatch" contains "config:8-13"
>
> Note that busmatch overlaps pidmatch
>
> 2) Create event groups that have their overlapping config space
> separated out:
>
> "/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7"
>
> "/sys/...<dev>.1/format/pidmatch" contains "config:8-15"
>
> "/sys/...<dev>.2/format/busmatch" contains "config:8-13"
>
>
> Notice the .1 and .2 on the <dev>.
>
> This might help the user understand which fields go together. I'm not
> sold on the .1 syntax... you could do it as <dev>.<event-group-name>/ or
> <dev>/<event-group-name>/... or whatever seems to make the most sense
> and is relatively easy to implement and use.
Why try and stuff those 20 in a single driver? Have 20 drivers and each
their own format/ hierarchy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-15 15:30 [RFC 0/3] perf tool: Add new event group management Jiri Olsa
2011-12-15 15:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf, tool: Add parser generator for events parsing Jiri Olsa
2011-12-16 14:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-16 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-20 10:31 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 10:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-20 11:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-20 11:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-21 16:16 ` new syntax for perf event Jiri Olsa
2012-01-05 9:17 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-05 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-09 15:28 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-09 15:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [RFCv3 0/9] perf tool: parser generator for events parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 1/9] perf, tool: Make perf_evlist__splice_list_tail global Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 2/9] perf, tool: Remove unused functions from debugfs object Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 3/9] perf, tool: Add sysfs mountpoint interface Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 4/9] perf, tool: Add bitmap_or function into bitmap object Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 5/9] perf: Add sysfs format attribute for pmu device Jiri Olsa
2012-01-23 15:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-23 15:33 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-24 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 19:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-25 8:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-26 16:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 12:32 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] perf, tool: Add parser generator for events parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-01-24 16:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-25 8:42 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 7/9] perf, tool: Add config options support for event parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 8/9] perf, tool: Add perf pmu object to access pmu format definition Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH 9/9] perf, tool: Add support to specify pmu style event Jiri Olsa
2012-01-24 15:22 ` [RFCv3 0/9] perf tool: parser generator for events parsing Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 16:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-25 0:53 ` Greg KH
2012-01-25 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-25 14:37 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-26 16:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 16:27 ` Greg KH
2012-01-25 17:01 ` Greg KH
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCHv4 " Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/9] perf, tool: Make perf_evlist__splice_list_tail global Jiri Olsa
2012-02-07 19:31 ` [tip:perf/core] perf evlist: Make splice_list_tail method public tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/9] perf, tool: Remove unused functions from debugfs object Jiri Olsa
2012-02-17 9:51 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 3/9] perf, tool: Add sysfs mountpoint interface Jiri Olsa
2012-02-17 9:52 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 4/9] perf, tool: Add bitmap_or function into bitmap object Jiri Olsa
2012-02-17 9:53 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 5/9] perf: Adding sysfs group format attribute for pmu device Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 21:08 ` Corey Ashford
2012-01-27 21:19 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-02-01 0:47 ` Corey Ashford
2012-01-30 9:52 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-02-01 1:25 ` Corey Ashford
2012-02-01 13:13 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-02-01 14:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-01 14:31 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-02-01 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-01 13:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-02 0:33 ` Corey Ashford
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 6/9] perf, tool: Add parser generator for events parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 7/9] perf, tool: Add config options support for event parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 8/9] perf, tool: Add perf pmu object to access pmu format definition Jiri Olsa
2012-01-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 9/9] perf, tool: Add support to specify pmu style event Jiri Olsa
2012-02-13 13:13 ` [PATCHv4 0/9] perf tool: parser generator for events parsing Jiri Olsa
2012-02-14 16:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-14 16:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-14 20:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-14 20:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-14 21:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-15 9:24 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-02-15 11:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-15 13:32 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-02-15 13:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-15 9:04 ` Jiri Olsa
2012-02-15 11:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-22 19:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf, tool: Add " Vince Weaver
2011-12-19 14:37 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 10:29 ` [PATCHv2 0/2] perf tool: " Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 10:29 ` [PATCHv2 1/2] perf, tool: Add " Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 10:29 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] perf, tool: Add more automated tests for event parsing Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 17:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf, tool: Add parser generator for events parsing Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-12-21 9:55 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-12-15 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf, tool: Add new event group management Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 17:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-12-20 21:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-21 11:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-12-15 15:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf, tool: Add more automated tests for event parsing Jiri Olsa
2011-12-20 17:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-12-21 8:47 ` [tip:perf/core] perf test: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
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