Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] perf x86: Exposing IO stack to IO PMON mapping through sysfs

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

On 12/12/2019 10:04 AM, roman.sudarikov@linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Roman Sudarikov <roman.sudarikov@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The previous version can be found at:
> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/10/185
>

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> Changes in this revision are:
> v2 -> v3:
> - Addressed comments from Peter and Kan
> 

Please specify which comments are addressed and how are they addressed 
next time. So we can focus on the updated codes.

Except the change log issue, the patch set looks good to me.

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


> The previous version can be found at:
> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/26/447
> 
> Changes in this revision are:
> v1 -> v2:
> - Fixed process related issues;
> - This patch set includes kernel support for IIO stack to PMON mapping;
> - Stephane raised concerns regarding output format which may require
> code changes in the user space part of the feature only. We will continue
> output format discussion in the context of user space update.
> 
> Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family (code name Skylake-SP) makes
> significant changes in the integrated I/O (IIO) architecture. The new
> solution introduces IIO stacks which are responsible for managing traffic
> between the PCIe domain and the Mesh domain. Each IIO stack has its own
> PMON block and can handle either DMI port, x16 PCIe root port, MCP-Link
> or various built-in accelerators. IIO PMON blocks allow concurrent
> monitoring of I/O flows up to 4 x4 bifurcation within each IIO stack.
> 
> Software is supposed to program required perf counters within each IIO
> stack and gather performance data. The tricky thing here is that IIO PMON
> reports data per IIO stack but users have no idea what IIO stacks are -
> they only know devices which are connected to the platform.
> 
> Understanding IIO stack concept to find which IIO stack that particular
> IO device is connected to, or to identify an IIO PMON block to program
> for monitoring specific IIO stack assumes a lot of implicit knowledge
> about given Intel server platform architecture.
> 
> This patch set introduces:
> 1. An infrastructure for exposing an Uncore unit to Uncore PMON mapping
>     through sysfs-backend;
> 2. A new --iiostat mode in perf stat to provide I/O performance metrics
>     per I/O device.
> 
> Usage examples:
> 
> 1. List all devices below IIO stacks
>    ./perf stat --iiostat=show
> 
> Sample output w/o libpci:
> 
>      S0-RootPort0-uncore_iio_0<00:00.0>
>      S1-RootPort0-uncore_iio_0<81:00.0>
>      S0-RootPort1-uncore_iio_1<18:00.0>
>      S1-RootPort1-uncore_iio_1<86:00.0>
>      S1-RootPort1-uncore_iio_1<88:00.0>
>      S0-RootPort2-uncore_iio_2<3d:00.0>
>      S1-RootPort2-uncore_iio_2<af:00.0>
>      S1-RootPort3-uncore_iio_3<da:00.0>
> 
> Sample output with libpci:
> 
>      S0-RootPort0-uncore_iio_0<00:00.0 Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers>
>      S1-RootPort0-uncore_iio_0<81:00.0 Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+>
>      S0-RootPort1-uncore_iio_1<18:00.0 Omni-Path HFI Silicon 100 Series [discrete]>
>      S1-RootPort1-uncore_iio_1<86:00.0 Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+>
>      S1-RootPort1-uncore_iio_1<88:00.0 Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+>
>      S0-RootPort2-uncore_iio_2<3d:00.0 Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T>
>      S1-RootPort2-uncore_iio_2<af:00.0 Omni-Path HFI Silicon 100 Series [discrete]>
>      S1-RootPort3-uncore_iio_3<da:00.0 NVMe Datacenter SSD [Optane]>
> 
> 2. Collect metrics for all I/O devices below IIO stack
> 
>    ./perf stat --iiostat -- dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M oflag=direct
>      357708+0 records in
>      357707+0 records out
>      375083606016 bytes (375 GB, 349 GiB) copied, 215.381 s, 1.7 GB/s
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>       device             Inbound Read(MB)    Inbound Write(MB)    Outbound Read(MB)   Outbound Write(MB)
>      00:00.0                    0                    0                    0                    0
>      81:00.0                    0                    0                    0                    0
>      18:00.0                    0                    0                    0                    0
>      86:00.0                    0                    0                    0                    0
>      88:00.0                    0                    0                    0                    0
>      3b:00.0                    3                    0                    0                    0
>      3c:03.0                    3                    0                    0                    0
>      3d:00.0                    3                    0                    0                    0
>      af:00.0                    0                    0                    0                    0
>      da:00.0               358559                   44                    0                   22
> 
>      215.383783574 seconds time elapsed
> 
> 
> 3. Collect metrics for comma separted list of I/O devices
> 
>    ./perf stat --iiostat=da:00.0 -- dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M oflag=direct
>      381555+0 records in
>      381554+0 records out
>      400088457216 bytes (400 GB, 373 GiB) copied, 374.044 s, 1.1 GB/s
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>       device             Inbound Read(MB)    Inbound Write(MB)    Outbound Read(MB)   Outbound Write(MB)
>      da:00.0               382462                   47                    0                   23
> 
>      374.045775505 seconds time elapsed
> 
> 
> Roman Sudarikov (2):
>    perf x86: Infrastructure for exposing an Uncore unit to PMON mapping
>    perf x86: Exposing an Uncore unit to PMON for Intel Xeon® server
>      platform
> 
>   arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c       |  39 ++++++-
>   arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.h       |  10 +-
>   arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c | 162 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 219d54332a09e8d8741c1e1982f5eae56099de85
>