RE: [RFC PATCH 00/25] Perf stat metric grouping with hardware information

[Wang, Weilin]

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> From: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> To: Wang, Weilin <weilin.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/25] Perf stat metric grouping with hardware
> information
> 
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 11:19 PM <weilin.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Perf stat metric grouping generates event groups that are provided to
> > kernel for data collection using the hardware counters. Sometimes, the
> > grouping might fail and kernel has to retry the groups because
> > generated groups do not fit in the hardware counters correctly. In
> > some other cases, the groupings are collected correctly, however, they left
> some hardware counters unused.
> >
> > To improve these inefficiencies, we would like to propose a hardware
> > aware grouping method that does metric/event grouping based on event
> > counter restriction rules and the availability of hardware counters in
> > the system. This method is generic as long as all the restriction
> > rules could be provided from the pmu-event JSON files.
> >
> > This patch set includes code that does hardware aware grouping and
> > updated pmu-event JSON files for four platforms (SapphireRapids,
> > Icelakex, Cascadelakex, and Tigerlake) for your testing and
> > experimenting. We've successfully tested these patches on three
> > platforms (SapphireRapids, Icelakex, and Cascadelakex) with topdown
> metrics from TopdownL1 to TopdownL6.
> >
> > There are some optimization opportunities that we might implement in the
> future:
> > 1) Better NMI hanlding: when NMI watchdog is enabled, we reduce the
> > default_core total counter size by one. This could be improved to better
> utilize the counter.
> 
> Thanks Weilin! I'm checking out the series. Hopefully the NMI watchdog perf
> event can go away soon with the buddy scheme:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230527014153.2793931-1-
> dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> But better NMI handling would be true for people without the latest kernel.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
Thanks Ian! I will update the NMI handling in next version. 

> > 2) Fill important events into unused counter for better counter utlization:
> > there might be some unused counters scattered in the groups. We could
> > consider to add important events in this slots if necessary. This
> > could help increase the multiplexing percentage and help improve accuracy if
> the event is critical.
> >
> > Remaining questions for dicussion:
> > 3) Where to start grouping from? The current implementation start
> > grouping by combining all the events into a single list. This step
> > deduplicates events. But it does not maintain the relationship of events
> according to the metrics, i.e.
> > events required by one metric may not be collected at the same time.
> > Another type of starting point would be grouping each individual
> > metric and then try to merge the groups.
> > 4) Any comments, suggestions, new ideas?
> > 5) If you are interested to test the patch out and the pmu-event JSON
> > files of your testing platform is not provided here, please let me
> > know so that I could provide you the files.
> >
> >
> > Weilin Wang (25):
> >   perf stat: Add hardware-grouping cmd option to perf stat
> >   perf stat: Add basic functions for the hardware-grouping stat cmd
> >     option
> >   perf pmu-events: Add functions in jevent.py
> >   perf pmu-events: Add counter info into JSON files for SapphireRapids
> >   perf pmu-events: Add event counter data for Cascadelakex
> >   perf pmu-events: Add event counter data for Icelakex
> >   perf stat: Add helper functions for hardware-grouping method
> >   perf stat: Add functions to get counter info
> >   perf stat: Add helper functions for hardware-grouping method
> >   perf stat: Add helper functions to hardware-grouping method
> >   perf stat: Add utility functions to hardware-grouping method
> >   perf stat: Add more functions for hardware-grouping method
> >   perf stat: Add functions to hardware-grouping method
> >   perf stat: Add build string function and topdown events handling in
> >     hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Add function to combine metrics for hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Update keyword core to default_core to adjust to the
> >     changes for events with no unit
> >   perf stat: Handle taken alone in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Handle NMI in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Handle grouping method fall back in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Code refactoring in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Add tool events support in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Add TSC support in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Fix a return error issue in hardware-grouping
> >   perf stat: Add check to ensure correctness in platform that does not
> >     support hardware-grouping
> >   perf pmu-events: Add event counter data for Tigerlake
> >
> >  tools/lib/bitmap.c                            |   20 +
> >  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                     |    7 +
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/cache.json          | 1237 ++++++++++++
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/counter.json        |   17 +
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/floating-point.json |   16 +
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/frontend.json       |   68 +
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/memory.json         |  751 ++++++++
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/other.json          |  168 ++
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/pipeline.json       |  102 +
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-cache.json   | 1138 +++++++++++
> >  .../x86/cascadelakex/uncore-interconnect.json | 1272 +++++++++++++
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-io.json      |  394 ++++
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-memory.json  |  509 +++++
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-power.json   |   25 +
> >  .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/virtual-memory.json |   28 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/icelakex/cache.json   |   98 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/icelakex/counter.json |   17 +
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/floating-point.json     |   13 +
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/frontend.json           |   55 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/icelakex/memory.json  |   53 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/icelakex/other.json   |   52 +
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/pipeline.json           |   92 +
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/uncore-cache.json       |  965 ++++++++++
> >  .../x86/icelakex/uncore-interconnect.json     | 1667 +++++++++++++++++
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/uncore-io.json          |  966 ++++++++++
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/uncore-memory.json      |  186 ++
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/uncore-power.json       |   26 +
> >  .../arch/x86/icelakex/virtual-memory.json     |   22 +
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/cache.json        |  104 +
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/counter.json      |   17 +
> >  .../x86/sapphirerapids/floating-point.json    |   25 +
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/frontend.json     |   98 +-
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/memory.json       |   44 +
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/other.json        |   40 +
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/pipeline.json     |  118 ++
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/uncore-cache.json |  534 +++++-
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/uncore-cxl.json   |   56 +
> >  .../sapphirerapids/uncore-interconnect.json   |  476 +++++
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/uncore-io.json    |  373 ++++
> >  .../x86/sapphirerapids/uncore-memory.json     |  391 ++++
> >  .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/uncore-power.json |   24 +
> >  .../x86/sapphirerapids/virtual-memory.json    |   20 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/tigerlake/cache.json  |   65 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/counter.json           |    7 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/floating-point.json    |   13 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/frontend.json          |   56 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/tigerlake/memory.json |   31 +
> >  .../pmu-events/arch/x86/tigerlake/other.json  |    4 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/pipeline.json          |   96 +
> >  .../x86/tigerlake/uncore-interconnect.json    |   11 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/uncore-memory.json     |    6 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/uncore-other.json      |    1 +
> >  .../arch/x86/tigerlake/virtual-memory.json    |   20 +
> >  tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py              |  179 +-
> >  tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h            |   26 +-
> >  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c                 |  927 +++++++++
> >  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h                 |   82 +
> >  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                         |    5 +
> >  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                         |    1 +
> >  tools/perf/util/stat.h                        |    1 +
> >  60 files changed, 13790 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)  create mode
> > 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/cascadelakex/counter.json
> >  create mode 100644
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/icelakex/counter.json
> >  create mode 100644
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/sapphirerapids/counter.json
> >  create mode 100644
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/tigerlake/counter.json
> >
> > --
> > 2.39.3
> >