netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:54:19 +0800
From:	He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
	Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@...wei.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<acme@...nel.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	<masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>, <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	<daniel@...earbox.net>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <pi3orama@....com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement
 bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers

hi, Alexei

>> What about using similar
>> implementation
>> like PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT, creating a new ioctl like
>> PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_ENABLER,
>> then let perf to select an event as 'enabler', then BPF can still
>> control one atomic
>> variable to enable/disable a set of events.
>
> you lost me on that last sentence. How this 'enabler' will work?
> Also I'm still missing what's wrong with perf doing ioctl() on
> events on all cpus manually when bpf program tells it to do so.
> Is it speed you concerned about or extra work in perf ?
>
>

For not having too much wakeups, perf ringbuffer has a watermark
limit to cache events and reduce the wakeups, which causes perf
userspace tool can not receive perf events immediately.

Here's a simple demo expamle to prove it, 'sleep_exec' does some
writes and prints a timestamp every second, and an lable is
printed when perf poll gets events.

   $ perf record -m 2 -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 1000
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 1 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 2 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 3 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   userspace sleep time: 4 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 5 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 6 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 7 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 1
   userspace sleep time: 8 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 2
   ..

   $ perf record -m 1 -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 1000
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 1 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   userspace sleep time: 2 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 3 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 1
   userspace sleep time: 4 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 5 seconds
   ..

By default, if no mmap_pages is specified, perf tools wakeup only
when the target executalbe finished:

   $ perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 5
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 1 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 2 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 3 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 4 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.006 MB perf.data (54 samples) ]

If we want perf to reflect as soon as our sample event be generated,
--no-buffering should be used, but this option has a greater
impact on performance.

   $ perf record --no-buffering -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 1000
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   perf record wakeup onetime 1
   perf record wakeup onetime 2
   perf record wakeup onetime 3
   perf record wakeup onetime 4
   perf record wakeup onetime 5
   perf record wakeup onetime 6
   ..

Thank you

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