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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 15:24:12 +0000
From: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
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Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@...ux.ibm.com>,
Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
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Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perf jevents: Parse metrics during conversion
On 01/12/2022 03:41, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Currently the 'MetricExpr' json value is passed from the json
> file to the pmu-events.c. This change introduces an expression
> tree that is parsed into. The parsing is done largely by using
> operator overloading and python's 'eval' function. Two advantages
> in doing this are:
>
> 1) Broken metrics fail at compile time rather than relying on
> `perf test` to detect. `perf test` remains relevant for checking
> event encoding and actual metric use.
Do we still require the code to "resolve metrics" in resolve_metric()?
But I'm not sure it even ever had any users.
>
> 2) The conversion to a string from the tree can minimize the metric's
> string size, for example, preferring 1e6 over 1000000, avoiding
> multiplication by 1 and removing unnecessary whitespace. On x86
> this reduces the string size by 3,050bytes (0.07%).
Out of curiosity, did you try the exponent change on its own (to see the
impact on size)?
Nit:
Unrelated, really, I notice that sometimes we lose the parenthesis and
sometimes never had them, like:
/* offset=11526 */ "\000\000metrics\000Ave [...] 0\000( 1000000000 * (
UNC_CHA
/* offset=11207 */ "\000\000metrics\000Ave [...] 0\0001e9 * (UNC_CHA_TOR
To me, it seems neater to have the expression contained within (a
parenthesis) ever since we moved to this "big string". This seems to be
a preexisting feature.
Thanks,
John
>
> In future changes it would be possible to programmatically
> generate the json expressions (a single line of text and so a
> pain to write manually) for an architecture using the expression
> tree. This could avoid copy-pasting metrics for all architecture
> variants.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers<irogers@...gle.com>
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