From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Share events between metrics
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 22:43:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP-5=fV2eNAt0LLHYXeLMR6GZi_oGZyzz8psErNkbahLQs-VLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200507214652.GC3538@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 2:47 PM Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > > - 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.
Thanks Andi, I've provided some examples of TopDownL3_SMT in the cover
letter of the v3 patch set:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200508053629.210324-1-irogers@google.com/
I tested sandybridge and cascadelake and the results look similar to
the non-SMT version. Let me know if there's a different variant to
test.
> >
> > 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.
Agreed, do you have a pointer on a metric group where things would
obviously be worse? I started off with a cache miss and hit rate
metric and similar to topdown this approach is a benefit.
In v3 I've added a --metric-no-merge option to retain existing
grouping behavior, I've also added a --metric-no-group that avoids
groups for all metrics. This may be useful if the NMI watchdog can't
be disabled.
Thanks for the input!
Ian
> -Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 5:43 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
2020-05-08 5:43 ` Ian Rogers [this message]
2020-12-15 15:08 ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-12-15 18:39 ` Andi Kleen
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