Re: [PATCH v3 00/35] PMU refactoring and improvements

["Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>]

On 2023-05-24 6:17 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> Separate the code in pmu.[ch] into the set/list of PMUs and the code
> for a particular PMU. Move the set/list of PMUs code into
> pmus.[ch]. Clean up hybrid code and remove hybrid PMU list, it is
> sufficient to scan PMUs looking for core ones. Add core PMU list and
> perf_pmus__scan_core that just reads core PMUs. Switch code that skips
> non-core PMUs during a perf_pmus__scan, to use the
> perf_pmus__scan_core variant. Don't scan sysfs for PMUs if all such
> PMUs have been previously scanned/loaded. Scanning just core PMUs, for
> the cases it is applicable, can improve the sysfs reading time by more
> than 4 fold on my laptop, as servers generally have many more uncore
> PMUs the improvement there should be larger:
> 
> ```
> $ perf bench internals pmu-scan -i 1000
> Computing performance of sysfs PMU event scan for 1000 times
>   Average core PMU scanning took: 989.231 usec (+- 1.535 usec)
>   Average PMU scanning took: 4309.425 usec (+- 74.322 usec)
> ```
> 
> The patch "perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus" moves and renames a lot of
> functions, and is consequently large. The changes are trivial, but
> kept together to keep the overall number of patches more reasonable.
> 

Other than the small suggestion in patch 16, the patch set looks good to
me. Thanks Ian!

Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>

Thanks,
Kan

> v3. Address fixing hybrid user specified CPU maps by doing it in
>     propagate maps. Remove nearly all references to cpu_core/cpu_atom
>     in particular by removing is_pmu_hybrid - hybrid is now >1 core
>     PMU. Addresses comments by Kan and Namhyung.
> v2. Address Kan's review comments wrt "cycles" -> "cycles:P" and
>     "uncore_pmus" -> "other_pmus".
> 
> Ian Rogers (35):
>   perf cpumap: Add intersect function
>   perf tests: Organize cpu_map tests into a single suite
>   perf cpumap: Add equal function
>   libperf cpumap: Add "any CPU"/dummy test function
>   perf pmu: Detect ARM and hybrid PMUs with sysfs
>   perf pmu: Add is_core to pmu
>   perf evsel: Add is_pmu_core inorder to interpret own_cpus
>   perf pmu: Add CPU map for "cpu" PMUs
>   perf evlist: Propagate user CPU maps intersecting core PMU maps
>   perf evlist: Allow has_user_cpus to be set on hybrid
>   perf target: Remove unused hybrid value
>   perf tools: Warn if no user requested CPUs match PMU's CPUs
>   perf evlist: Remove evlist__warn_hybrid_group
>   perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default
>   perf evlist: Reduce scope of evlist__has_hybrid
>   perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_mounted
>   perf pmu: Rewrite perf_pmu__has_hybrid to avoid list
>   perf x86: Iterate hybrid PMUs as core PMUs
>   perf topology: Avoid hybrid list for hybrid topology
>   perf evsel: Compute is_hybrid from PMU being core
>   perf header: Avoid hybrid PMU list in write_pmu_caps
>   perf metrics: Remove perf_pmu__is_hybrid use
>   perf stat: Avoid hybrid PMU list
>   perf mem: Avoid hybrid PMU list
>   perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_pmus list
>   perf pmus: Prefer perf_pmu__scan over perf_pmus__for_each_pmu
>   perf x86 mem: minor refactor to is_mem_loads_aux_event
>   perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus
>   perf pmus: Split pmus list into core and other
>   perf pmus: Allow just core PMU scanning
>   perf pmus: Avoid repeated sysfs scanning
>   perf pmus: Ensure all PMUs are read for find_by_type
>   perf pmus: Add function to return count of core PMUs
>   perf pmus: Remove perf_pmus__has_hybrid
>   perf pmu: Remove is_pmu_hybrid
> 
>  tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c                 |  61 +++
>  tools/lib/perf/evlist.c                 |  25 +-
>  tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h |   9 +
>  tools/lib/perf/include/perf/cpumap.h    |  14 +
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c     |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c       |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c        |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/hybrid.c      |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c     |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c       |  25 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evsel.c        |  27 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c    |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c     |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/mem-events.c   |  17 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c    |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c      |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/pmu-scan.c             |  60 +--
>  tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c                |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-list.c               |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-mem.c                |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c             |  29 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c               |  14 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c                |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/attr.c                 |  11 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c         |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c               |  92 ++++-
>  tools/perf/tests/event_groups.c         |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c         |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c         |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c           |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c      |  14 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/tests.h                |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/topology.c             |  16 +-
>  tools/perf/util/Build                   |   2 -
>  tools/perf/util/cpumap.c                |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cpumap.h                |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cputopo.c               |  12 +-
>  tools/perf/util/env.c                   |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c         | 162 --------
>  tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h         |  15 -
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                |  64 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                 |  60 +--
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                 |   3 -
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                |  27 +-
>  tools/perf/util/mem-events.c            |  25 +-
>  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c           |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c          |  25 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y          |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pfm.c                   |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c            |  52 ---
>  tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h            |  32 --
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                   | 483 ++----------------------
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                   |  25 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmus.c                  | 465 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/pmus.h                  |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/print-events.c          |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources      |   1 -
>  tools/perf/util/stat-display.c          |  19 +-
>  tools/perf/util/target.h                |   1 -
>  60 files changed, 1002 insertions(+), 1089 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h
>