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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] Introduce threaded trace streaming for basic perf record operation
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:43:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201024154309.GA2589351@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ec29ed6-0047-d22f-630b-a7f5ccee96b4@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 06:52:43PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - explicitly added credit tags to patches 6/15 and 15/15,
>   additionally to cites [1], [2]
> - updated description of 3/15 to explicitly mention the reason
>   to open data directories in read access mode (e.g. for perf report)
> - implemented fix for compilation error of 2/15
> - explicitly elaborated on found issues to be resolved for
>   threaded AUX trace capture
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/810f3a69-0004-9dff-a911-b7ff97220ae0@linux.intel.com/
> 
> Patch set provides threaded trace streaming for base perf record
> operation. Provided streaming mode (--threads) mitigates profiling
> data losses and resolves scalability issues of serial and asynchronous
> (--aio) trace streaming modes on multicore server systems. The patch
> set is based on the prototype [1], [2] and the most closely relates
> to mode 3) "mode that creates thread for every monitored memory map".

so what I liked about the previous code was that you could
configure how the threads would be created

default --threads options created thread for each cpu like
in your change:

  $ perf record -v --threads ...
  ...
  thread 0 monitor: 0 allowed: 0
  thread 1 monitor: 1 allowed: 1
  thread 2 monitor: 2 allowed: 2
  thread 3 monitor: 3 allowed: 3
  thread 4 monitor: 4 allowed: 4
  thread 5 monitor: 5 allowed: 5
  thread 6 monitor: 6 allowed: 6
  thread 7 monitor: 7 allowed: 7


then numa based:

  $ perf record -v --threads=numa ...
  ...
  thread 0 monitor: 0-5,12-17 allowed: 0-5,12-17
  thread 1 monitor: 6-11,18-23 allowed: 6-11,18-23


socket based:

  $ perf record -v --threads=socket ...
  ...
  thread 0 monitor: 0-7 allowed: 0-7


core based:

  $ perf record -v --threads=core ...
  ...
  thread 0 monitor: 0,4 allowed: 0,4
  thread 1 monitor: 1,5 allowed: 1,5
  thread 2 monitor: 2,6 allowed: 2,6
  thread 3 monitor: 3,7 allowed: 3,7


and user configurable:

  $ perf record -v  --threads=0-3/0:4-7/4 ...
  ...
  threads: 0. monitor 0-3, allowed 0
  threads: 1. monitor 4-7, allowed 4


so this way you could easily pin threads to cpu/core/socket/numa,
or to some other cpu of your choice, because this will be always
game of try and check where I'm not getting LOST events and not
creating 1000 threads

 perf record: Add support for threads numa option value
 perf record: Add support for threads socket option value
 perf record: Add support for threads core option value
 perf record: Add support for threads user option value

jirka


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-24 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-21 15:52 [PATCH v2 00/15] Introduce threaded trace streaming for basic perf record operation Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] perf session: introduce trace file path to be shown in raw trace dump Alexey Budankov
2020-10-22  4:28   ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-21 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] perf report: output trace file name " Alexey Budankov
2020-10-22  4:29   ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-21 15:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] perf data: open data directory in read access mode Alexey Budankov
2020-10-22  4:31   ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-22  7:50     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:43   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26 17:47     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-27 11:59       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27 14:44         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] perf session: move reader object definition to header file Alexey Budankov
2020-10-22  4:31   ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-24 15:44   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26 17:50     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 16:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] perf session: introduce decompressor into trace reader object Alexey Budankov
2020-10-22  4:36   ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-22  7:20     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:44   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26  8:54     ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-21 16:01 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] perf session: load data directory into tool process memory Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:43   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27  7:37     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-27 12:21       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27 14:43         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-28  7:22           ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-28 15:39             ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-29 11:00               ` Namhyung Kim
2020-10-28 15:36           ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27 15:04         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 16:01 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] perf record: introduce trace file, compressor and stats in mmap object Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 16:02 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] perf record: write trace data into mmap trace files Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:44   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26  8:52     ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-26 10:32       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26 14:04         ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-21 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] perf record: introduce thread specific objects for trace streaming Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:44   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26  8:53     ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-21 16:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] perf record: manage thread specific data array Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:44   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26  8:39     ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-21 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] perf evlist: introduce evlist__ctlfd_update() to update ctl fd status Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 16:07 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] perf record: introduce thread local variable for trace streaming Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:43   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26  8:21     ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-26 10:34       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26 14:11         ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-27 12:01           ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27 14:16             ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-27 15:58             ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 16:08 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] perf record: stop threads in the end of " Alexey Budankov
2020-10-21 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] perf record: start threads in the beginning " Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:44   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26  8:39     ` Alexei Budankov
2020-10-21 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] perf record: introduce --threads command line option Alexey Budankov
2020-10-24 15:43 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2020-10-26 17:59   ` [PATCH v2 00/15] Introduce threaded trace streaming for basic perf record operation Alexey Budankov
2020-10-27 12:10     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27 14:26       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-27 16:01       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-10-28  7:08         ` Namhyung Kim
     [not found]           ` <b6150d2f-04a6-9204-59ac-c31c8697c630@linux.intel.com>
2020-10-28 15:32             ` Jiri Olsa

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