linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] perf record: apply affinity masks when reading mmap buffers

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:55:34 +0300
From:   Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] perf record: apply affinity masks when reading
 mmap buffers

Hi,
On 21.01.2019 14:54, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:23:05PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
>>  static int record__mmap_read_evlist(struct record *rec, struct perf_evlist *evlist,
>>  				    bool overwrite)
>>  {
>> @@ -755,6 +768,7 @@ static int record__mmap_read_evlist(struct record *rec, struct perf_evlist *evli
>>  		struct perf_mmap *map = &maps[i];
>>  
>>  		if (map->base) {
>> +			record__adjust_affinity(rec, map);
>>  			if (!record__aio_enabled(rec)) {
>>  				if (perf_mmap__push(map, rec, record__pushfn) != 0) {
>>  					rc = -1;
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> index 08cedb643ea6..178d3280ba62 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> @@ -1032,7 +1032,11 @@ int perf_evlist__mmap_ex(struct perf_evlist *evlist, unsigned int pages,
>>  	 * Its value is decided by evsel's write_backward.
>>  	 * So &mp should not be passed through const pointer.
>>  	 */
>> -	struct mmap_params mp = { .nr_cblocks = nr_cblocks, .affinity = affinity };
>> +	struct mmap_params mp = {
>> +		.nr_cblocks	= nr_cblocks,
>> +		.affinity	= affinity,
>> +		.cpu_map	= cpu_map__new(NULL) /* from /sys/devices/system/cpu/online */
>> +	};
> 
> cpu_map won't get released.. if there's no better solution,
> at least we could have it as static in build_node_mask..
> this way it will be created only once

nice catch, thanks!! moved the static into a separate cpu_map__online() 
in cpumap.c and that simplified the changes a bit.

Alexey

> 
> jirka
>