Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] perf: support enable and disable commands in stat and record modes

[Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>]

Hi,

Is there anything else that could be done from my side to move this forward?

Thanks,
Alexey

On 13.05.2020 10:53, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - renamed functions and types from perf_evlist_ to evlist_ to avoid
>   clash with libperf code;
> - extended commands to be strings of variable length consisting of
>   command name and also possibly including command specific data;
> - merged docs update with the code changes;
> - updated docs for -D,--delay=-1 option for stat and record modes;
> 
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d582cc3d-2302-c7e2-70d3-bc7ab6f628c3@linux.intel.com/
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - renamed resume and pause commands to enable and disable ones, renamed
>   CTL_CMD_RESUME and CTL_CMD_PAUSE to CTL_CMD_ENABLE and CTL_CMD_DISABLE
>   to fit to the appropriate ioctls and avoid mixing up with PAUSE_OUTPUT
>   ioctl;
> - factored out event handling loop into a handle_events() for stat mode;
> - separated -D,--delay=-1 into separate patches for stat and record modes;
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/825a5132-b58d-c0b6-b050-5a6040386ec7@linux.intel.com/
> 
> repo: tip of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/core
> 
> The patch set implements handling of 'start disabled', 'enable' and 'disable'
> external control commands which can be provided for stat and record modes
> of the tool from an external controlling process. 'start disabled' command
> can be used to postpone enabling of events in the beginning of a monitoring
> session. 'enable' and 'disable' commands can be used to enable and disable
> events correspondingly any time after the start of the session.
> 
> The 'start disabled', 'enable' and 'disable' external control commands can be
> used to focus measurement on specially selected time intervals of workload
> execution. Focused measurement reduces tool intrusion and influence on
> workload behavior, reduces distortion and amount of collected and stored
> data, mitigates data accuracy loss because measurement and data capturing
> happen only during intervals of interest.
> 
> A controlling process can be a bash shell script [1], native executable or
> any other language program that can directly work with file descriptors,
> e.g. pipes [2], and spawn a process, specially the tool one.
> 
> -D,--delay <val> option is extended with -1 value to skip events enabling
> in the beginning of a monitoring session ('start disabled' command).
> --ctl-fd and --ctl-fd-ack command line options are introduced to provide the
> tool with a pair of file descriptors to listen to control commands and reply
> to the controlling process on the completion of received commands.
> 
> The tool reads control command message from ctl-fd descriptor, handles the
> command and optionally replies acknowledgement message to fd-ack descriptor,
> if it is specified on the command line. 'enable' command is recognized as
> 'enable' string message and 'disable' command is recognized as 'disable'
> string message both received from ctl-fd descriptor. Completion message is
> 'ack\n' and sent to fd-ack descriptor.
> 
> Example bash script demonstrating simple use case follows:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> ctl_dir=/tmp/
> 
> ctl_fifo=${ctl_dir}perf_ctl.fifo
> test -p ${ctl_fifo} && unlink ${ctl_fifo}
> mkfifo ${ctl_fifo} && exec {ctl_fd}<>${ctl_fifo}
> 
> ctl_ack_fifo=${ctl_dir}perf_ctl_ack.fifo
> test -p ${ctl_ack_fifo} && unlink ${ctl_ack_fifo}
> mkfifo ${ctl_ack_fifo} && exec {ctl_fd_ack}<>${ctl_ack_fifo}
> 
> perf stat -D -1 -e cpu-cycles -a -I 1000                \
>           --ctl-fd ${ctl_fd} --ctl-fd-ack ${ctl_fd_ack} \
>           -- sleep 40 &
> perf_pid=$!
> 
> sleep 5  && echo 'enable' >&${ctl_fd} && read -u ${ctl_fd_ack} e1 && echo "enabled(${e1})"
> sleep 10 && echo 'disable' >&${ctl_fd} && read -u ${ctl_fd_ack} d1 && echo "disabled(${d1})"
> sleep 5  && echo 'enable' >&${ctl_fd} && read -u ${ctl_fd_ack} e2 && echo "enabled(${e2})"
> sleep 10 && echo 'disable' >&${ctl_fd} && read -u ${ctl_fd_ack} d2 && echo "disabled(${d2})"
> 
> exec {ctl_fd_ack}>&- && unlink ${ctl_ack_fifo}
> exec {ctl_fd}>&- && unlink ${ctl_fifo}
> 
> wait -n ${perf_pid}
> exit $?
> 
> 
> Script output:
> 
> [root@host dir] example
> Events disabled
> #           time             counts unit events
>      1.001101062      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      2.002994944      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      3.004864340      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      4.006727177      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
> Events enabled
> enabled(ack)
>      4.993808464          3,124,246      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      5.008597004          3,325,624      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      6.010387483         83,472,992      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      7.012266598         55,877,621      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      8.014175695         97,892,729      cpu-cycles                                                  
>      9.016056093         68,461,242      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     10.017937507         55,449,643      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     11.019830154         68,938,167      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     12.021719952         55,164,101      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     13.023627550         70,535,720      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     14.025580995         53,240,125      cpu-cycles                                                  
> disabled(ack)
>     14.997518260         53,558,068      cpu-cycles                                                  
> Events disabled
>     15.027216416      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     16.029052729      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     17.030904762      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     18.032073424      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     19.033805074      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
> Events enabled
> enabled(ack)
>     20.001279097          3,021,022      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     20.035044381          6,434,367      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     21.036923813         89,358,251      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     22.038825169         72,516,351      cpu-cycles                                                  
> #           time             counts unit events
>     23.040715596         55,046,157      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     24.042643757         78,128,649      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     25.044558535         61,052,428      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     26.046452785         62,142,806      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     27.048353021         74,477,971      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     28.050241286         61,001,623      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     29.052149961         61,653,502      cpu-cycles                                                  
> disabled(ack)
>     30.004980264         82,729,640      cpu-cycles                                                  
> Events disabled
>     30.053516176      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     31.055348366      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     32.057202097      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     33.059040702      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     34.060843288      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
>     35.000888624      <not counted>      cpu-cycles                                                  
> [root@host dir]# 
> 
> [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/bash.1.html
> [2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pipe.2.html
> 
> ---
> Alexey Budankov (9):
>   perf evlist: introduce control file descriptors
>   perf evlist: implement control command handling functions
>   perf stat: factor out event handling loop into a function
>   perf stat: extend -D,--delay option with -1 value
>   perf stat: implement control commands handling
>   perf stat: introduce --ctl-fd[-ack] options
>   perf record: extend -D,--delay option with -1 value
>   perf record: implement control commands handling
>   perf record: introduce --ctl-fd[-ack] options
> 
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt |  44 +++++++-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt   |  45 +++++++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c              |  39 ++++++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                | 137 ++++++++++++++++-------
>  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c               |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                 | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                 |  24 ++++
>  tools/perf/util/record.h                 |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/stat.h                   |   4 +-
>  9 files changed, 379 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>