From d6a2f9035bfc27d0e9d78b13635dda9fb017ac01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Carrillo-Cisneros Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:55:06 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Vince Weaver Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471467307-61171-4-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h') 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) -- cgit v1.2.3