From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Proposed systemtap access to perfmon hardware
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mslph7z6w.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441AE1DE.2040207@redhat.com>
wcohen wrote:
> To try to get a feel on how the performance monitoring hardware
> support would work in SystemTap I wrote some simple examples.
Nice work. To flesh out the operational model (and please correct me
if I'm wrong): the way this stuff would all work is:
- The systemtap translator would be linked with libpfm from perfmon2.
(libpfm license is friendly.)
- This library would be used at translation time to map perfmon.* probe
point specifications to PMC register descriptions (pfmlib_output_param_t).
(This will require telling the system the exact target cpu type for
cross-instrumentation.)
- These descriptions would be emitted into the C code, for actual
installation during module initialization. For our first cut, since
there appears to exist no kernel-side management API at the moment,
the C code would directly manipulate the PMC registers. (This means
no coexistence for oprofile or other concurrent perfctr probing.
C'est la vie.)
- The "sample" type perfmon probes would map to the same kind of
dispatch/callback as the current "timer.profile": the probe handler
should have valid pt_regs available.
- The free-running type perfmon probes, probably named
"perfctr.SPEC.setup" or ".start" or ".begin" would map to a one-time
initialization that passes a token (PMC counter number?) to the
handler. Other probe handlers can then query/manipulate the
free-running counter using that number via the start/stop/query
functions.
Is that sufficiently detailed to begin an implementation?
> [...] print ("ipc is %d.%d \n", ipc/factor, ipc % factor);
(An aside: we should have a more compact notation for this. We won't
support floating point numbers, but integers can be commonly scaled
like this. Maybe printf("%.Nf", value), where N implies a
power-of-ten scaling factor, and printf("%*f", value, scale) for
general factors.)
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-15 16:24 William Cohen
2006-03-15 22:34 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-03-17 16:20 ` William Cohen
2006-03-17 17:10 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-17 17:34 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2006-03-17 20:26 ` William Cohen
2006-03-20 17:27 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-03-22 3:34 ` Maynard Johnson
2006-03-22 18:02 ` William Cohen
2006-03-22 22:16 ` Maynard Johnson
2006-03-22 18:30 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-03-22 19:09 Stone, Joshua I
2006-03-22 20:04 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-03-22 23:23 Stone, Joshua I
2006-03-22 23:46 Stone, Joshua I
2006-03-23 12:54 ` Maynard Johnson
2006-03-23 14:46 ` William Cohen
2006-03-23 17:09 Stone, Joshua I
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