Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] Introduce threaded trace streaming for basic perf record operation

Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27T12:10:25Z

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 08:59:01PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>
> On 24.10.2020 18:43, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 06:52:43PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> >>
> >> Changes in v2:
> >> - explicitly added credit tags to patches 6/15 and 15/15,
> >> additionally to cites [1], [2]
> >> - updated description of 3/15 to explicitly mention the reason
> >> to open data directories in read access mode (e.g. for perf report)
> >> - implemented fix for compilation error of 2/15
> >> - explicitly elaborated on found issues to be resolved for
> >> threaded AUX trace capture
> >>
> >> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/810f3a69-0004-9dff-a911-b7ff97220ae0@linux.intel.com/
> >>
> >> Patch set provides threaded trace streaming for base perf record
> >> operation. Provided streaming mode (--threads) mitigates profiling
> >> data losses and resolves scalability issues of serial and asynchronous
> >> (--aio) trace streaming modes on multicore server systems. The patch
> >> set is based on the prototype [1], [2] and the most closely relates
> >> to mode 3) "mode that creates thread for every monitored memory map".
> >
> > so what I liked about the previous code was that you could
> > configure how the threads would be created
> >
> > default --threads options created thread for each cpu like
> > in your change:
> >
> > $ perf record -v --threads ...
> > ...
> > thread 0 monitor: 0 allowed: 0
> > thread 1 monitor: 1 allowed: 1
> > thread 2 monitor: 2 allowed: 2
> > thread 3 monitor: 3 allowed: 3
> > thread 4 monitor: 4 allowed: 4
> > thread 5 monitor: 5 allowed: 5
> > thread 6 monitor: 6 allowed: 6
> > thread 7 monitor: 7 allowed: 7
>
> Yes, it is configurable in the prototype. Even though this patch set
> doesn't implement that parameters for --thread option, just because
> VTune doesn't have use cases for that yet, it has still been designed
> and implemented with that possible extension in mind so it could then
> be easily added on top of it.

I'm not sure about vtune extensions, but if we are going to
have --threads option I believe we should make it configurable
at least to the extend descibed below

jirka

>
> >
> >
> > then numa based:
> >
> > $ perf record -v --threads=numa ...
> > ...
> > thread 0 monitor: 0-5,12-17 allowed: 0-5,12-17
> > thread 1 monitor: 6-11,18-23 allowed: 6-11,18-23
> >
> >
> > socket based:
> >
> > $ perf record -v --threads=socket ...
> > ...
> > thread 0 monitor: 0-7 allowed: 0-7
> >
> >
> > core based:
> >
> > $ perf record -v --threads=core ...
> > ...
> > thread 0 monitor: 0,4 allowed: 0,4
> > thread 1 monitor: 1,5 allowed: 1,5
> > thread 2 monitor: 2,6 allowed: 2,6
> > thread 3 monitor: 3,7 allowed: 3,7
> >
> >
> > and user configurable:
> >
> > $ perf record -v --threads=0-3/0:4-7/4 ...
> > ...
> > threads: 0. monitor 0-3, allowed 0
> > threads: 1. monitor 4-7, allowed 4
> >
> >
> > so this way you could easily pin threads to cpu/core/socket/numa,
> > or to some other cpu of your choice, because this will be always
> > game of try and check where I'm not getting LOST events and not
> > creating 1000 threads
> >
> > perf record: Add support for threads numa option value
> > perf record: Add support for threads socket option value
> > perf record: Add support for threads core option value
> > perf record: Add support for threads user option value
>
> Makes sense.
>
> Alexei
>