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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 08:47:08 -0700
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize for thousands of tasks
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 6:41 AM Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 17:05, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > The hw_breakpoint subsystem's code has seen little change in over 10
> > years. In that time, systems with >100s of CPUs have become common,
> > along with improvements to the perf subsystem: using breakpoints on
> > thousands of concurrent tasks should be a supported usecase.
> [...]
> > Marco Elver (14):
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Add KUnit test for constraints accounting
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Provide hw_breakpoint_is_used() and use in test
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Clean up headers
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize list of per-task breakpoints
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Mark data __ro_after_init
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize constant number of breakpoint slots
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Make hw_breakpoint_weight() inlinable
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Remove useless code related to flexible
> > breakpoints
> > powerpc/hw_breakpoint: Avoid relying on caller synchronization
> > locking/percpu-rwsem: Add percpu_is_write_locked() and
> > percpu_is_read_locked()
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Reduce contention with large number of tasks
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Introduce bp_slots_histogram
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize max_bp_pinned_slots() for CPU-independent
> > task targets
> > perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize toggle_bp_slot() for CPU-independent task
> > targets
> [...]
>
> This is ready from our side, and given the silence, assume it's ready
> to pick up and/or have a maintainer take a look. Since this is mostly
> kernel/events, would -tip/perf/core be appropriate?
These are awesome improvements, I've added my acked-by to every
change. I hope we can pull these changes, as you say, into tip.git
perf/core and get them into 5.20.
Thanks,
Ian
> Thanks,
> -- Marco
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