Commit-ID: 40999312c703f80e8d31bc77cf00e6e84d36e091
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/40999312c703f80e8d31bc77cf00e6e84d36e091
Author: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:21:01 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:01:16 +0100
perf/core: Try parent PMU first when initializing a child event
perf has additional overhead when monitoring the task which
frequently generates child tasks.
perf_init_event() is one of the hotspots for the additional overhead:
Currently, to get the PMU, it tries to search the type in pmu_idr at
first. But it is not always successful, especially for the widely used
PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events. So it has to go to the
slow path which go through the whole PMUs list.
It will be a big performance issue, if the PMUs list is long (e.g. server
with many uncore boxes) and the task frequently generates child tasks.
The child event inherits its parent event. So the child event should
try its parent PMU first.
Here is some data from the overhead test on Broadwell server:
perf record -e $TEST_EVENTS -- ./loop.sh 50000
loop.sh
start=$(date +%s%N)
i=0
while [ "$i" -le "$1" ]
do
date > /dev/null
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
end=$(date +%s%N)
elapsed=`expr $end - $start`
Event# Original elapsed time Elapsed time with patch delta
1 196,573,192,397 189,162,029,998 -3.77%
2 257,567,753,013 241,620,788,683 -6.19%
4 398,730,726,971 370,518,938,714 -7.08%
8 824,983,761,120 740,702,489,329 -10.22%
16 1,883,411,923,498 1,672,027,508,355 -11.22%
... which shows a nice performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Tidied up the changelog and the code comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index cbcee23..88676ff 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9022,6 +9022,14 @@ static struct pmu *perf_init_event(struct perf_event
*event)
idx = srcu_read_lock(&pmus_srcu);
+ /* Try parent's PMU first: */
+ if (event->parent && event->parent->pmu) {
+ pmu = event->parent->pmu;
+ ret = perf_try_init_event(pmu, event);
+ if (!ret)
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
rcu_read_lock();
pmu = idr_find(&pmu_idr, event->attr.type);
rcu_read_unlock();
