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Message-ID: <05b67e8c-6ba0-5774-93fd-d390ac4e3b19@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:44:12 +0300
From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...wei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Hui Wang <hw.huiwang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] perf: add new option '--workload-attr' to set
workload sched_policy/priority/mask
On 24/07/23 07:02, Changbin Du wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 01:00:58PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> On 18/07/23 06:33, Changbin Du wrote:
>>> This adds a new option '--workload-attr' to set the sched_policy/priority/mask
>>> of the workload to reduce system noise.
>>>
>>> $ sudo perf stat --workload-attr fifo,40,0-3:7 -- ls
>>
>> Not really sold on the need for this, but maybe it could be
>> simpler.
>> What about just adding a hook for a command (e.g. script) to
>> run before exec'ing the workload e.g.
>>
>> --configure-workload=blah.sh
>>
>> results in perf doing system("blah.sh 12345") where 12345
>> is the workload PID.
>>
>> Then maybe you could do:
>>
>> --configure-workload="taskset -p 0x3"
>>
> Acctually, we already have such option for perf-stat.
>
> --post <command> command to run after to the measured command
> --pre <command> command to run prior to the measured command
>
> By involving a shell script we can do more complex setup. But sometimes I just
> need to set sched attributes. For example, to investigate the impact of
> various compiler optimizations. In this case, I don't want a script. This is the
> original purpose I try to add this new option.
There is also command schedtool, but what exactly is the problem
with a script?
>
>>
>>>
>>> Please see patch 1/2 for more details.
>>>
>>> v3:
>>> - replace taskset with --workload-attr option in documents and tests.
>>> v2:
>>> - Use cpu list spec instead of cpu mask number.
>>> - Update documents.
>>>
>>> Changbin Du (3):
>>> perf cpumap: Add __perf_cpu_map__new and perf_cpu_map__2_cpuset
>>> perf: add new option '--workload-attr' to set workload
>>> sched_policy/priority/mask
>>> perf: replace taskset with --workload-attr option
>>>
>>> tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c | 45 ++++++-
>>> tools/lib/perf/include/perf/cpumap.h | 4 +
>>> tools/lib/perf/libperf.map | 2 +
>>> tools/perf/Documentation/intel-hybrid.txt | 2 +-
>>> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 7 ++
>>> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 8 +-
>>> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 26 ++++
>>> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 18 +++
>>> tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c | 23 ++++
>>> .../tests/shell/stat_bpf_counters_cgrp.sh | 2 +-
>>> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh | 2 +-
>>> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_data_symbol.sh | 2 +-
>>> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_intel_pt.sh | 2 +-
>>> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++
>>> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 3 +
>>> tools/perf/util/target.h | 9 ++
>>> 16 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>
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