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Song Liu authored
The perf tool uses performance monitoring counters (PMCs) to monitor system performance. The PMCs are limited hardware resources. For example, Intel CPUs have 3x fixed PMCs and 4x programmable PMCs per cpu. Modern data center systems use these PMCs in many different ways: system level monitoring, (maybe nested) container level monitoring, per process monitoring, profiling (in sample mode), etc. In some cases, there are more active perf_events than available hardware PMCs. To allow all perf_events to have a chance to run, it is necessary to do expensive time multiplexing of events. On the other hand, many monitoring tools count the common metrics (cycles, instructions). It is a waste to have multiple tools create multiple perf_events of "cycles" and occupy multiple PMCs. bperf tries to reduce such wastes by allowing multiple perf_events of "cycles" or "instructions" (at different scopes) to share PMUs. Instead of having each perf-stat session to read its own perf_events, bperf uses BPF programs to read the perf_events and aggregate readings to BPF maps. Then, the perf-stat session(s) reads the values from these BPF maps. Please refer to the comment before the definition of bperf_ops for the description of bperf architecture. bperf is off by default. To enable it, pass --bpf-counters option to perf-stat. bperf uses a BPF hashmap to share information about BPF programs and maps used by bperf. This map is pinned to bpffs. The default path is /sys/fs/bpf/perf_attr_map. The user could change the path with option --bpf-attr-map. Committer testing: # dmesg|grep "Performance Events" -A5 [ 0.225277] Performance Events: Fam17h+ core perfctr, AMD PMU driver. [ 0.225280] ... version: 0 [ 0.225280] ... bit width: 48 [ 0.225281] ... generic registers: 6 [ 0.225281] ... value mask: 0000ffffffffffff [ 0.225281] ... max period: 00007fffffffffff # # for a in $(seq 6) ; do perf stat -a -e cycles,instructions sleep 100000 & done [1] 2436231 [2] 2436232 [3] 2436233 [4] 2436234 [5] 2436235 [6] 2436236 # perf stat -a -e cycles,instructions sleep 0.1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 310,326,987 cycles (41.87%) 236,143,290 instructions # 0.76 insn per cycle (41.87%) 0.100800885 seconds time elapsed # We can see that the counters were enabled for this workload 41.87% of the time. Now with --bpf-counters: # for a in $(seq 32) ; do perf stat --bpf-counters -a -e cycles,instructions sleep 100000 & done [1] 2436514 [2] 2436515 [3] 2436516 [4] 2436517 [5] 2436518 [6] 2436519 [7] 2436520 [8] 2436521 [9] 2436522 [10] 2436523 [11] 2436524 [12] 2436525 [13] 2436526 [14] 2436527 [15] 2436528 [16] 2436529 [17] 2436530 [18] 2436531 [19] 2436532 [20] 2436533 [21] 2436534 [22] 2436535 [23] 2436536 [24] 2436537 [25] 2436538 [26] 2436539 [27] 2436540 [28] 2436541 [29] 2436542 [30] 2436543 [31] 2436544 [32] 2436545 # # ls -la /sys/fs/bpf/perf_attr_map -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Mar 23 14:53 /sys/fs/bpf/perf_attr_map # bpftool map | grep bperf | wc -l 64 # # bpftool map | tail 1265: percpu_array name accum_readings flags 0x0 key 4B value 24B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B 1266: hash name filter flags 0x0 key 4B value 4B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B 1267: array name bperf_fo.bss flags 0x400 key 4B value 8B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B btf_id 996 pids perf(2436545) 1268: percpu_array name accum_readings flags 0x0 key 4B value 24B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B 1269: hash name filter flags 0x0 key 4B value 4B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B 1270: array name bperf_fo.bss flags 0x400 key 4B value 8B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B btf_id 997 pids perf(2436541) 1285: array name pid_iter.rodata flags 0x480 key 4B value 4B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B btf_id 1017 frozen pids bpftool(2437504) 1286: array flags 0x0 key 4B value 32B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B # # bpftool map dump id 1268 | tail value (CPU 21): 8f f3 bc ca 00 00 00 00 80 fd 2a d1 4d 00 00 00 80 fd 2a d1 4d 00 00 00 value (CPU 22): 7e d5 64 4d 00 00 00 00 a4 8a 2e ee 4d 00 00 00 a4 8a 2e ee 4d 00 00 00 value (CPU 23): a7 78 3e 06 01 00 00 00 b2 34 94 f6 4d 00 00 00 b2 34 94 f6 4d 00 00 00 Found 1 element # bpftool map dump id 1268 | tail value (CPU 21): c6 8b d9 ca 00 00 00 00 20 c6 fc 83 4e 00 00 00 20 c6 fc 83 4e 00 00 00 value (CPU 22): 9c b4 d2 4d 00 00 00 00 3e 0c df 89 4e 00 00 00 3e 0c df 89 4e 00 00 00 value (CPU 23): 18 43 66 06 01 00 00 00 5b 69 ed 83 4e 00 00 00 5b 69 ed 83 4e 00 00 00 Found 1 element # bpftool map dump id 1268 | tail value (CPU 21): f2 6e db ca 00 00 00 00 92 67 4c ba 4e 00 00 00 92 67 4c ba 4e 00 00 00 value (CPU 22): dc 8e e1 4d 00 00 00 00 d9 32 7a c5 4e 00 00 00 d9 32 7a c5 4e 00 00 00 value (CPU 23): bd 2b 73 06 01 00 00 00 7c 73 87 bf 4e 00 00 00 7c 73 87 bf 4e 00 00 00 Found 1 element # # perf stat --bpf-counters -a -e cycles,instructions sleep 0.1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 119,410,122 cycles 152,105,479 instructions # 1.27 insn per cycle 0.101395093 seconds time elapsed # See? We had the counters enabled all the time. Signed-off-by:Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by:
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210316211837.910506-2-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by:
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