perf/core: Introduce PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG
authorDavid Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:55:06 +0000 (13:55 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:53:59 +0000 (10:53 +0200)
commitd6a2f9035bfc27d0e9d78b13635dda9fb017ac01
treeff202f5400841b1714a1fe4a61682f75b614e742
parent4ff6a8debf48a7bf48e93c01da720785070d3a25
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>
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c