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authorDavid Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>2016-08-17 23:55:06 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-18 11:53:59 +0300
commitd6a2f9035bfc27d0e9d78b13635dda9fb017ac01 (patch)
treeff202f5400841b1714a1fe4a61682f75b614e742 /include/linux/perf_event.h
parent4ff6a8debf48a7bf48e93c01da720785070d3a25 (diff)
downloadlinux-d6a2f9035bfc27d0e9d78b13635dda9fb017ac01.tar.xz
perf/core: Introduce PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG
Introduce the flag PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG, useful for uncore events, that allows a PMU to signal the generic perf code that an event is readable in the current CPU if the event is active in a CPU in the same package as the current CPU. This is an optimization that avoids a unnecessary IPI for the common case where uncore events are run and read in the same package but in different CPUs. As an example, the IPI removal speeds up perf_read() in my Haswell system as follows: - For event UNC_C_LLC_LOOKUP: From 260 us to 31 us. - For event RAPL's power/energy-cores/: From to 255 us to 27 us. For the optimization to work, all events in the group must have it (similarly to PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE). Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471467307-61171-4-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 6f7459f72dfd..5c5362584aba 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -514,8 +514,11 @@ typedef void (*perf_overflow_handler_t)(struct perf_event *,
* Event capabilities. For event_caps and groups caps.
*
* PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE: Is a software event.
+ * PERF_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG: A CPU event (or cgroup event) that can be read
+ * from any CPU in the package where it is active.
*/
#define PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE BIT(0)
+#define PERF_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG BIT(1)
#define SWEVENT_HLIST_BITS 8
#define SWEVENT_HLIST_SIZE (1 << SWEVENT_HLIST_BITS)