Setting up groups can be complicated due to the complicated scheduling
restrictions of different PMUs.
User tools usually don't understand all these restrictions.
Still in many cases it is useful to set up groups and they work most of
the time. However if the group is set up wrong some members will not
report any value because they never get scheduled.
Add a concept of a 'weak group': try to set up a group, but if it's not
schedulable fallback to not using a group. That gives us the best of
both worlds: groups if they work, but still a usable fallback if they
don't.
In theory it would be possible to have more complex fallback strategies
(e.g. try to split the group in half), but the simple fallback of not
using a group seems to work for now.
So far the weak group is only implemented for perf stat, not for record.
Here's an unschedulable group (on IvyBridge with SMT on)
% perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}' -a sleep 1
73,806,067 branches
4,848,144 branch-misses # 6.57% of all branches
14,754,458 l1d.replacement
24,905,558 l2_lines_in.all
<not supported> l2_rqsts.all_code_rd <------- will never report anything
With the weak group:
% perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}:W' -a sleep 1
125,366,055 branches (80.02%)
9,208,402 branch-misses # 7.35% of all branches (80.01%)
24,560,249 l1d.replacement (80.00%)
43,174,971 l2_lines_in.all (80.05%)
31,891,457 l2_rqsts.all_code_rd (79.92%)
The extra event scheduled with some extra multiplexing
v2: Move fallback code to separate function.
Add comment on for_each_group_member
Adjust to new perf_evsel__close interface
v3: Fix debug print out.
Committer testing:
Before:
# perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not counted> branches
<not counted> branch-misses
<not counted> l1d.replacement
<not counted> l2_lines_in.all
<not supported> l2_rqsts.all_code_rd
1.002147212 seconds time elapsed
# perf stat -e '{branches,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
83,207,892 branches
11,065,444 l1d.replacement
28,484,024 l2_lines_in.all
12,186,179 l2_rqsts.all_code_rd
1.001739493 seconds time elapsed
After:
# perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}':W -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
543,323,909 branches (80.01%)
27,100,512 branch-misses # 4.99% of all branches (80.02%)
50,402,905 l1d.replacement (80.03%)
67,385,892 l2_lines_in.all (80.01%)
21,352,885 l2_rqsts.all_code_rd (79.94%)
1.001086658 seconds time elapsed
#
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831194036.30146-2-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Add a "'perf stat' only, for now" comment in the man page, suggested by Jiri ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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