netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 1/4] bpftool: introduce "prog profile" command

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Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 20:21:11 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org, quentin@...valent.com,
        kernel-team@...com, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        arnaldo.melo@...il.com, jolsa@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 1/4] bpftool: introduce "prog profile" command

On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 10:07:07AM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> With fentry/fexit programs, it is possible to profile BPF program with
> hardware counters. Introduce bpftool "prog profile", which measures key
> metrics of a BPF program.
> 
> bpftool prog profile command creates per-cpu perf events. Then it attaches
> fentry/fexit programs to the target BPF program. The fentry program saves
> perf event value to a map. The fexit program reads the perf event again,
> and calculates the difference, which is the instructions/cycles used by
> the target program.
> 
> Example input and output:
> 
>   ./bpftool prog profile id 337 duration 3 cycles instructions llc_misses
> 
>         4228 run_cnt
>      3403698 cycles                                              (84.08%)
>      3525294 instructions   #  1.04 insn per cycle               (84.05%)
>           13 llc_misses     #  3.69 LLC misses per million isns  (83.50%)

FYI I'm in the middle of moving perf's 'events parsing' interface to libperf,
which takes event name/s on input and returns list of perf_event_attr objects

  parse_events("cycles") -> ready to use 'struct perf_event_attr'

You can use any event that's listed in 'perf list' command, which includes
also all vendor (Intel/Arm/ppc..) events. It might be useful extension for
this command.

jirka