Re: [REGRESSION] x86, perf: counter freezing breaks rr

Stephane Eranian
2018-11-28T01:25:28Z

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 3:36 PM Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > It does seem that FREEZE_PERFMON_ON_PMI (misnamed as it is) is of
> > rather limited use (or even negative, in our case) to a counter that's
> > already restricted to ring 3.
>
> It's much faster. The PMI cost goes down dramatically.
>
> I still the the right fix is to add an perf event opt-out and let it be
> used by rr.
>
> V3 is without counter freezing.
> V4 is with counter freezing.
> The value is the average cost of the PMI handler.
> (lower is better)
>
> perf options ` V3(ns) V4(ns) delta
> -c 100000 1088 894 -18%
> -g -c 100000 1862 1646 -12%
> --call-graph lbr -c 100000 3649 3367 -8%
> --c.g. dwarf -c 100000 2248 1982 -12%
>
Is that measured on the same machine, i.e., do you force V3 on Skylake?
All it does, I think, is save one wrmsr(GLOBAL_CTLR) on entry to the
PMU interrupt handler or am I missing something?
Or does it save two? The wrmsr(GLOBAL_CTRL) at the end to reactivate.

>
> -Andi
>