From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"ast@kernel.org" <ast@kernel.org>,
"daniel@iogearbox.net" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"acme@redhat.com" <acme@redhat.com>,
"jolsa@kernel.org" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"namhyung@kernel.org" <namhyung@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 14/15] perf: introduce side band thread
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 14:52:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190304135224.GD19809@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2506D6CF-F0E3-4640-B385-DD0843AD2928@fb.com>
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 05:52:52PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
>
>
> > On Feb 27, 2019, at 5:21 AM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 04:20:18PM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> >> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> >> index 8c902276d4b4..61b87c8111e6 100644
> >> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> >> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> >> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> >> #include "debug.h"
> >> #include "units.h"
> >> #include "asm/bug.h"
> >> +#include "bpf-event.h"
> >> #include <signal.h>
> >> #include <unistd.h>
> >>
> >> @@ -1841,3 +1842,102 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evlist__reset_weak_group(struct perf_evlist *evsel_list,
> >> }
> >> return leader;
> >> }
> >> +
> >> +static struct perf_evlist *sb_evlist;
> >> +pthread_t poll_thread;
> >
> > so some of the things are static and some like poll_args
> > you alloced on the stack.. I dont like this interface,
> > could we come up with something generic? perhaps
> > encapsulated in perf_evlist, like:
>
> I picked global sb_evlist and poll_thread because there
> should be only one sb_evlist and one thread polling it.
> There might be multiple evsel on the sb_evlist.
>
> I am not sure I understand your suggestion..
>
> > struct perf_evlist {
> > ...
> > struct {
> > pthread_t th;
> > int state;
> > } thread;
>
> This will not be used by the main perf_evlist, right?
no, just by the thread interface
>
> > };
> >
> > typedef int (perf_evlist__thread_cb_t)(perf_evlist, union perf_event *event,....)
>
> How do we use this callback? We need a way to specify which
> events to poll (mmap, bpf_event, ksymbol, etc). How do we do
> that with the callback function?
you provide your own callback
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-04 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-26 0:20 [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 00/15] perf annotation of BPF programs Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 01/15] perf, bpf: consider events with attr.bpf_event as side-band events Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 02/15] bpf: libbpf: introduce bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 03/15] bpf: bpftool: use bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() in prog.c:do_dump() Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 04/15] perf, bpf: synthesize bpf events with bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 05/15] perf: change prototype of perf_event__synthesize_bpf_events() Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 06/15] perf, bpf: save bpf_prog_info in a rbtree in perf_env Song Liu
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-27 17:38 ` Song Liu
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 07/15] perf, bpf: save bpf_prog_info information as headers to perf.data Song Liu
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-27 17:28 ` Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 08/15] perf, bpf: save btf in a rbtree in perf_env Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 09/15] perf, bpf: save btf information as headers to perf.data Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 10/15] perf-top: add option --no-bpf-event Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 11/15] perf: add -lopcodes to feature-libbfd Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 12/15] perf, bpf: enable annotation of bpf program Song Liu
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-27 13:22 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 13/15] perf, bpf: process PERF_BPF_EVENT_PROG_LOAD for annotation Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 14/15] perf: introduce side band thread Song Liu
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-27 17:52 ` Song Liu
2019-03-04 13:52 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2019-03-04 19:49 ` Song Liu
2019-03-04 20:41 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-04 20:44 ` Song Liu
2019-03-04 21:40 ` Song Liu
2019-03-05 11:03 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-05 20:37 ` Song Liu
2019-02-26 0:20 ` [PATCH v4 perf,bpf 15/15] perf, bpf: save information about short living bpf programs Song Liu
2019-02-27 13:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-27 17:42 ` Song Liu
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