linux-kernel - Re: perf: Translating mmap2 ids into socket info?

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Message-ID: <20141022203834.GL135937@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:38:34 -0400
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Joe Mario <jmario@...hat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	eranian@...gle.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, jolsa@...hat.com,
	rfowles@...hat.com
Subject: Re: perf:  Translating mmap2 ids into socket info?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:02:19PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:09:35PM -0400, Joe Mario wrote:
> > >Yes, kernel memory is directly addresses, you basically have a static
> > >address->node mapping, it never changes.
> > 
> > For kernel addresses, is there a reason not to have it available in perf,
> > especially when that knowledge is important to understanding a numa-related slowdown?
> 
> Dunno why that isn't exposed in sysfs.
> 
> > In our case, when we booted with one configuration, AIM ran fine.  When we
> > booted another way, AIM's performance dropped 50%.  It was all due to the dentry
> > lock being located on a different (now remote) numa node.
> > 
> > We used your dmesg approach to track down the home node in an attempt to understand
> > what was different between the two boots.  But the problem would have been obvious
> > if perf simply listed the home node info.
> 
> Or if you'd used more counters that track the node interconnect traffic
> ;-) There are a few simple ones that count local/remote type things
> (offcore), but using the uncore counters you can track way more.

Ha!  I have been telling myself for a year I would try to learn more about
those offcore/uncore counters.  Is there documentation for how to access
the uncore stuff?  Do I have to long hand it with 'perf record -e
uncore_qpi_1/<stuff>/ foo'?

Cheers,
Don

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