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Message-ID: <20151022090632.GK2508@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:06:32 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Cc:	pi3orama <pi3orama@....com>, "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
	xiakaixu <xiakaixu@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	acme@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com,
	jolsa@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hekuang@...wei.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/1] bpf: control events stored in PERF_EVENT_ARRAY
 maps trace data output when perf sampling

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 02:19:49PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> >Urgh, that's still horridly inconsistent. Can we please come up with a
> >consistent interface to perf?

> My suggestion was to do ioctl(enable/disable) of events from userspace
> after receiving notification from kernel via my bpf_perf_event_output()
> helper.

> Wangnan's argument was that display refresh happens often and it's fast,
> so the time taken by user space to enable events on all cpus is too
> slow and ioctl does ipi and disturbs other cpus even more.
> So soft_disable done by the program to enable/disable particular events
> on all cpus kinda makes sense.

And this all makes me think I still have no clue what you're all trying
to do here.

Who cares about display updates and why. And why should there be an
active userspace part to eBPF programs?
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