Re: [RFC 00/17] Per-context and per-client engine busyness

Chris Wilson
2017-10-26T10:10:21Z

Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2017-10-26 10:50:57)
> On 26/10/17 08:34, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > On 25/10/2017 18:38, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >> Quoting Chris Wilson (2017-10-25 16:47:13)
> >>> Quoting Tvrtko Ursulin (2017-10-25 16:36:15)
> >>>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> >>> I've prototyped a quick demo of intel-client-top which produces output like:
> >>>
> >>> neverball[ 6011]: rcs0: 41.01% bcs0: 0.00% vcs0: 0.00% vecs0: 0.00%
> >>> Xorg[ 5664]: rcs0: 31.16% bcs0: 0.00% vcs0: 0.00% vecs0: 0.00%
> >>> xfwm4[ 5727]: rcs0: 0.00% bcs0: 0.00% vcs0: 0.00% vecs0: 0.00%
> >> +1
> >> +2 for a graph ;)
> > Where are those placement students when you need them! :)
>
> I won't be your student, but I could like to wire this into gputop.

See intel_gpu_overlay for a set of graphs where this would fit in nicely
(but not neatly). It's certainly not a robust user-friendly UI (or code),
but for measuring kernel-level activity, there's nothing else that tries
to put all the information in the same place. Hint ;)
-Chris