linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>, Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>,
	John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
	Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users <linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Share events between metrics
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:46:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200507214652.GC3538@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP-5=fUdoGJs+yViq3BOcJa7YyF53AD9RGQm8aRW72nMH0sKDA@mail.gmail.com>

> > - without this change events within a metric may get scheduled
> >   together, after they may appear as part of a larger group and be
> >   multiplexed at different times, lowering accuracy - however, less
> >   multiplexing may compensate for this.
> 
> I agree the heuristic in this patch set is naive and would welcome to
> improve it from your toplev experience. I think this change is
> progress on TopDownL1 - would you agree?

TopdownL1 in non SMT mode should always fit. Inside a group
deduping always makes sense. 

The problem is SMT mode where it doesn't fit. toplev tries
to group each node and each level together.

> 
> I'm wondering if what is needed are flags to control behavior. For
> example, avoiding the use of groups altogether. For TopDownL1 I see.

Yes the current situation isn't great.

For Topdown your patch clearly is an improvement, I'm not sure
it's for everything though.

Probably the advanced heuristics are only useful for a few
formulas, most are very simple. So maybe it's ok. I guess
would need some testing over the existing formulas.


-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07  8:14 [RFC PATCH 0/7] Share events between metrics Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] perf expr: migrate expr ids table to libbpf's hashmap Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] perf metricgroup: change evlist_used to a bitmap Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] perf metricgroup: free metric_events on error Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] perf metricgroup: always place duration_time last Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] perf metricgroup: delay events string creation Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] perf metricgroup: order event groups by size Ian Rogers
2020-05-07  8:14 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] perf metricgroup: remove duped metric group events Ian Rogers
2020-05-07 13:49 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] Share events between metrics Jiri Olsa
2020-05-07 14:11   ` Ian Rogers
2020-05-07 17:48 ` Andi Kleen
2020-05-07 18:15   ` Ian Rogers
2020-05-07 21:46     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2020-05-08  5:43       ` Ian Rogers
2020-12-15 15:08         ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-12-15 18:39           ` Andi Kleen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20200507214652.GC3538@tassilo.jf.intel.com \
    --to=ak@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=acme@kernel.org \
    --cc=alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=andriin@fb.com \
    --cc=ast@kernel.org \
    --cc=bpf@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=daniel@iogearbox.net \
    --cc=eranian@google.com \
    --cc=irogers@google.com \
    --cc=john.fastabend@gmail.com \
    --cc=john.garry@huawei.com \
    --cc=jolsa@redhat.com \
    --cc=kafai@fb.com \
    --cc=kan.liang@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=kim.phillips@amd.com \
    --cc=kjain@linux.ibm.com \
    --cc=kpsingh@chromium.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mark.rutland@arm.com \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=namhyung@kernel.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=songliubraving@fb.com \
    --cc=xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com \
    --cc=yao.jin@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=yhs@fb.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).