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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:55:54 -0700
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: weilin.wang@...el.com
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v14 6/8] perf stat: Add command line option for
enabling tpebs recording
Hello Weilin,
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 06:20:22PM -0400, weilin.wang@...el.com wrote:
> From: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@...el.com>
>
> With this command line option, tpebs recording is turned off in perf stat on
> default. It will only be turned on when this option is given in perf stat
> command.
>
> Exampe with --enable-tpebs-recording:
I prefer shorter names, how about --enable-tpebs or --record-tpebs, or
maybe just --tpebs ?
Thanks,
Namhyung
>
> perf stat -M tma_split_loads -C1-4 --enable-tpebs-recording sleep 1
>
> [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.044 MB - ]
>
> Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 1-4':
>
> 53,259,156,071 cpu_core/TOPDOWN.SLOTS/ # 1.6 % tma_split_loads (50.00%)
> 15,867,565,250 cpu_core/topdown-retiring/ (50.00%)
> 15,655,580,731 cpu_core/topdown-mem-bound/ (50.00%)
> 11,738,022,218 cpu_core/topdown-bad-spec/ (50.00%)
> 6,151,265,424 cpu_core/topdown-fe-bound/ (50.00%)
> 20,445,917,581 cpu_core/topdown-be-bound/ (50.00%)
> 6,925,098,013 cpu_core/L1D_PEND_MISS.PENDING/ (50.00%)
> 3,838,653,421 cpu_core/MEMORY_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L1D_MISS/ (50.00%)
> 4,797,059,783 cpu_core/EXE_ACTIVITY.BOUND_ON_LOADS/ (50.00%)
> 11,931,916,714 cpu_core/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD/ (50.00%)
> 102,576,164 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_COMPLETED.L1_MISS_ANY/ (50.00%)
> 64,071,854 cpu_core/MEM_INST_RETIRED.SPLIT_LOADS/ (50.00%)
> 3 cpu_core/MEM_INST_RETIRED.SPLIT_LOADS/R
>
> 1.003049679 seconds time elapsed
>
> Exampe without --enable-tpebs-recording:
>
> perf stat -M tma_contested_accesses -C1 sleep 1
>
> Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 1':
>
> 50,203,891 cpu_core/TOPDOWN.SLOTS/ # 0.0 % tma_contested_accesses (63.60%)
> 10,040,777 cpu_core/topdown-retiring/ (63.60%)
> 6,890,729 cpu_core/topdown-mem-bound/ (63.60%)
> 2,756,463 cpu_core/topdown-bad-spec/ (63.60%)
> 10,828,288 cpu_core/topdown-fe-bound/ (63.60%)
> 28,350,432 cpu_core/topdown-be-bound/ (63.60%)
> 98 cpu_core/OCR.DEMAND_DATA_RD.L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM/ (63.70%)
> 577,520 cpu_core/MEMORY_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L2_MISS/ (54.62%)
> 313,339 cpu_core/MEMORY_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS/ (54.62%)
> 14,155 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_RETIRED.L1_MISS/ (45.54%)
> 0 cpu_core/OCR.DEMAND_DATA_RD.L3_HIT.SNOOP_HIT_WITH_FWD/ (36.30%)
> 8,468,077 cpu_core/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD/ (45.38%)
> 198 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_MISS/ (45.38%)
> 8,324 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_RETIRED.FB_HIT/ (45.38%)
> 3,388,031,520 TSC
> 23,226,785 cpu_core/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_TSC/ (54.46%)
> 80 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_FWD/ (54.46%)
> 0 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_FWD/R
> 0 cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_MISS/R
> 1,006,816,667 ns duration_time
>
> 1.002537737 seconds time elapsed
>
> Signed-off-by: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@...el.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 8 ++++++++
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> index 29756a87ab6f..f4cde834811d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> @@ -498,6 +498,14 @@ To interpret the results it is usually needed to know on which
> CPUs the workload runs on. If needed the CPUs can be forced using
> taskset.
>
> +--enable-tpebs-recording::
> +Enable automatic sampling on Intel TPEBS retire_latency events (event with :R
> +modifier). Without this option, perf would not capture dynamic retire_latency
> +at runtime. Currently, a zero value is assigned to the retire_latency event when
> +this option is not set. The TPEBS hardware feature starts from Intel Granite
> +Rapids microarchitecture. This option only exists in X86_64 and is meaningful on
> +Intel platforms with TPEBS feature.
> +
> --td-level::
> Print the top-down statistics that equal the input level. It allows
> users to print the interested top-down metrics level instead of the
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index 68125bd75b37..7111c96e68ab 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -2475,6 +2475,10 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
> "disable adding events for the metric threshold calculation"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "topdown", &topdown_run,
> "measure top-down statistics"),
> +#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_X86_64_SUPPORT
> + OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "enable-tpebs-recording", &tpebs_recording,
> + "enable recording for tpebs when retire_latency required"),
> +#endif
> OPT_UINTEGER(0, "td-level", &stat_config.topdown_level,
> "Set the metrics level for the top-down statistics (0: max level)"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "smi-cost", &smi_cost,
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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