From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jolsa@kernel.org, eranian@google.com,
alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
like.xu@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 07/14] perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_COEXIST event capability
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:54:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200724135412.GA10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d33a25c-cfe4-af7f-c915-a98dba17b53b@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:43:44AM -0400, Liang, Kan wrote:
>
>
> On 7/24/2020 7:46 AM, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:55:43PM +0200, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> > > > + event_sched_out(event, cpuctx, ctx);
> > > > + perf_event_set_state(event, PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR);
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Ah, so the problem here is that ERROR is actually recoverable using
> > > IOC_ENABLE. We don't want that either. Let me try and figure out of EXIT
> > > would work.
> >
> > EXIT is difficult too.. Also, that COEXIST thing hurt my brian, can't we
> > do a simpler SIBLING thing that simply requires the event to be a group
> > sibling?
> >
> > The consequence is that SLOTS must be the leader, is that really a
> > problem? You keep providing the {cycles, slots, metric-things} example,
> > but afaict {slots, metric-thing, cycles} should work just fine too.
> > PERF_SAMPLE_READ with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP doesn't need to the the leader.
>
> I'm not sure I get your point.
> For the PERF_SAMPLE_READ with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP case, other events can be
> the leader, e.g., {cycles, slots, metric-things}:S.
> In this case, the SLOTS event is not a leader. I don't think we can assume
> that the SLOTS event must be the leader.
You can have a sibling event with SAMPLE_READ and FORMAT_GROUP just
fine. The sampling event doesn't need to be the leader.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 17:11 [PATCH V7 00/14] TopDown metrics support for Icelake kan.liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 01/14] perf/x86: Use event_base_rdpmc for the RDPMC userspace support kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 02/14] perf/x86/intel: Name the global status bit in NMI handler kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 03/14] perf/x86/intel: Introduce the fourth fixed counter kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 04/14] perf/x86/intel: Move BTS index to 47 kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 05/14] perf/x86/intel: Fix the name of perf METRICS kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 06/14] perf/x86/intel: Use switch in intel_pmu_disable/enable_event kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 07/14] perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_COEXIST event capability kan.liang
2020-07-24 10:55 ` peterz
2020-07-24 11:46 ` peterz
2020-07-24 13:43 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-24 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-07-24 14:19 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-24 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-24 14:46 ` Andi Kleen
2020-07-24 14:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-24 16:43 ` peterz
2020-07-24 17:00 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-24 14:39 ` Andi Kleen
2020-07-24 14:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 08/14] perf/x86/intel: Generic support for hardware TopDown metrics kan.liang
2020-07-24 13:19 ` peterz
2020-07-24 15:27 ` peterz
2020-07-24 16:07 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-24 19:10 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-28 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-28 13:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-28 13:28 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-28 13:44 ` peterz
2020-07-28 14:01 ` Liang, Kan
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 09/14] perf/x86: Add a macro for RDPMC offset of fixed counters kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 10/14] perf/x86/intel: Support TopDown metrics on Ice Lake kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 11/14] perf/x86/intel: Support per-thread RDPMC TopDown metrics kan.liang
2020-08-19 8:52 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 12/14] perf, tools, stat: Support new per thread " kan.liang
2020-07-24 3:29 ` Andi Kleen
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 13/14] perf, tools, stat: Check Topdown Metric group kan.liang
2020-07-23 17:11 ` [PATCH V7 14/14] perf, tools: Add documentation for topdown metrics kan.liang
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