Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] perf/x86/intel: Shadow MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR_CTRL

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Thu Sep 01 2022 - 07:38:03 EST




On 2022-09-01 6:04 a.m., Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 11:10:49AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 09:52:19AM -0400, Liang, Kan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2022-08-29 6:10 a.m., Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>> Less RDMSR is more better.
>>>
>>> I had an RFC patch which does a further step to move the fixed
>>> control register write to right before the entire PMU re-enabling, which
>>> could also save some writes if there are several fixed counters enabled.
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220804140729.2951259-1-kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>>
>>> Do you have any comments for the RFC patch?
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I like that better, let me just replace my patch with that.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git perf/wip.cleanup
>
> Should have your patch instead of mine for the FIXED_CTR_CTRL and have
> the pmu methods in the right place.

Thanks. I will do more test today with the updated branch.

Thanks,
Kan