Re: [PATCH v8 0/9] Add metrics for neoverse-n2-v2

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 03:29:24PM +0800, Jing Zhang escreveu:
> Changes since v7:
> - Change pmu_core__find_same to pmu__find_core_pmu as suggested by Ian.
> - Returned NAN when can't find a pmu or the value from */caps/slots is
>   zero, in perf_pmu__cpu_slots_per_cycle, as suggested by John.
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1673601740-122788-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

 
> Changes since v6:
> - Split patch 1 into 3 smaller patches as suggested by Ian.
> - Change perf_pmu__get_slots to perf_pmu__cpu_slots_per_cycle,
>   per John's suggestion;
> - Return NAN instead of 0 in perf_pmu__cpu_slots_per_cycle weak
>   function, per John's suggestion;
> - Factor out pmu_core__find_same function, per John's suggestion.
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1673017529-1429208-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> Changes since v5:
> - Add common topdownL1 metrics in sbsa.json as suggested by John;
> - Correct PKI/MPKI ScaleUnit to 1PKI/1MPKI;
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1672745976-2800146-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> Changes since v4:
> - Add MPKI/PKI “ScaleUnit”;
> - Add acked-by from Ian Rogers;
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1671799045-1108027-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> Changes since v3:
> - Add ipc_rate metric;
> - Drop the PublicDescription;
> - Describe PEutilization metrics in more detail;
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1669310088-13482-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> Changes since v2:
> - Correct the furmula of Branch metrics;
> - Add more PE utilization metrics;
> - Add more TLB metrics;
> - Add “ScaleUnit” for some metrics;
> - Add a newline at the end of the file;
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1668411720-3581-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Corrected formula for topdown L1 due to wrong counts for stall_slot
>   and stall_slot_frontend; 
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1667214694-89839-1-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> This series does the following things:
> 
> The slots in each architecture may be different, so add #slots literal
> to obtain the slots of different architectures, and the #slots can be
> applied in the topdown metric. Currently, The #slots just support for
> arm64, and other architectures will return NAN.
> 
> The metrics of topdown L1 are from ARM sbsa7.0 platform design doc[0],
> D37-38, which are standard. So put them in the common file sbsa.json of
> arm64 and add general metric support, so that other cores besides n2/v2
> can also be reused.
> 
> Then add topdownL1 metric for neoverse-n2-v2, and due to the wrong count
> of stall_slot and stall_slot_frontend on neoverse-n2, the real stall_slot
> and real stall_slot_frontend need to subtract cpu_cycles, so overwrite
> the "MetricExpr" for neoverse-n2.
> Reference from ARM neoverse-n2 errata notice [1], D117.
> 
> Since neoverse-n2/neoverse-v2 does not yet support topdown L2, metricgroups
> such as Cache, TLB, Branch, InstructionsMix, and PEutilization will be added
> to further analysis of performance bottlenecks in the following patches.
> Reference from ARM PMU guide [2][3].
> 
> [0] https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/60250c7395978b529036da86?token=
> [1] https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/636a66a64e6cf12278ad89cb?token=
> [2] https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/628f8fa3dfaf015c2b76eae8?token=
> [3] https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/62cfe21e31ea212bb6627393?token=
> 
> Tested in neoverse-n2:
> 
> $./perf list
> ...
> Metric Groups:
> 
> Branch:
>   branch_miss_pred_rate
>        [The rate of branches mis-predited to the overall branches]
>   branch_mpki
>        [The rate of branches mis-predicted per kilo instructions]
>   branch_pki
>        [The rate of branches retired per kilo instructions]
> Cache:
>   l1d_cache_miss_rate
>        [The rate of L1 D-Cache misses to the overall L1 D-Cache]
>   l1d_cache_mpki
>        [The rate of L1 D-Cache misses per kilo instructions]
> ...
> 
> 
> $sudo ./perf stat -M TLB false_sharing 2
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'false_sharing 2':
> 
>             29,940      L2D_TLB                          #     20.0 %  l2_tlb_miss_rate         (42.36%)
>              5,998      L2D_TLB_REFILL                                                          (42.36%)
>              1,753      L1I_TLB_REFILL                   #      0.1 %  l1i_tlb_miss_rate        (43.17%)
>          2,173,957      L1I_TLB                                                                 (43.17%)
>        327,944,763      L1D_TLB                          #      0.0 %  l1d_tlb_miss_rate        (43.98%)
>             22,485      L1D_TLB_REFILL                                                          (43.98%)
>            497,210      L1I_TLB                          #      0.0 %  itlb_walk_rate           (44.83%)
>                 28      ITLB_WALK                                                               (44.83%)
>        821,488,762      INST_RETIRED                     #      0.0 MPKI  itlb_mpki             (43.97%)
>                122      ITLB_WALK                                                               (43.97%)
>                744      DTLB_WALK                        #      0.0 %  dtlb_walk_rate           (43.01%)
>        263,913,146      L1D_TLB                                                                 (43.01%)
>        779,073,875      INST_RETIRED                     #      0.0 MPKI  dtlb_mpki             (42.07%)
>              1,050      DTLB_WALK                                                               (42.07%)
> 
>        0.435864901 seconds time elapsed
> 
>        1.201384000 seconds user
>        0.000000000 seconds sys
> 
> 
> $sudo ./perf stat -M TopDownL1 false_sharing 2
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'false_sharing 2':
> 
>      3,408,960,257      cpu_cycles                       #      0.0 %  bad_speculation
>                                                   #      5.1 %  retiring                 (66.79%)
>     19,576,079,610      stall_slot                                                              (66.79%)
>        877,673,452      op_spec                                                                 (66.79%)
>        876,324,270      op_retired                                                              (66.79%)
>      3,406,548,064      cpu_cycles                       #     26.7 %  frontend_bound           (67.08%)
>      7,961,814,801      stall_slot_frontend                                                     (67.08%)
>      3,415,528,440      cpu_cycles                       #     68.8 %  backend_bound            (66.43%)
>     11,746,647,747      stall_slot_backend                                                      (66.43%)
> 
>        0.455229807 seconds time elapsed
> 
>        1.243216000 seconds user
>        0.000000000 seconds sys
> 
> $sudo ./perf stat -M branch sleep 1
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
> 
>            901,495      INST_RETIRED                     #    223.6 PKI  branch_pki
>            201,603      BR_RETIRED
>            901,495      INST_RETIRED                     #     10.0 MPKI  branch_mpki
>              9,004      BR_MIS_PRED_RETIRED
>              9,004      BR_MIS_PRED_RETIRED              #      4.5 %  branch_miss_pred_rate
>            201,603      BR_RETIRED
> 
>        1.000794467 seconds time elapsed
> 
>        0.000905000 seconds user
>        0.000000000 seconds sys
> 
> 
> Jing Zhang (9):
>   perf pmu: Add #slots literal support for arm64
>   perf jevent: Add general metrics support
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add common topdown L1 metrics
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add topdown L1 metrics for neoverse-n2-v2
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add TLB metrics for neoverse-n2-v2
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add cache metrics for neoverse-n2-v2
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add branch metrics for neoverse-n2-v2
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add PE utilization metrics for
>     neoverse-n2-v2
>   perf vendor events arm64: Add instruction mix metrics for
>     neoverse-n2-v2
> 
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c                   |  35 ++-
>  .../arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-n2-v2/metrics.json     | 273 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json         |  30 +++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py                   |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/expr.c                             |   5 +
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                              |   6 +
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                              |   1 +
>  7 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-n2-v2/metrics.json
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

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- Arnaldo