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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers

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hi, Alexei

>> What about using similar
>> implementation
>> like PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT, creating a new ioctl like
>> PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_ENABLER,
>> then let perf to select an event as 'enabler', then BPF can still
>> control one atomic
>> variable to enable/disable a set of events.
>
> you lost me on that last sentence. How this 'enabler' will work?
> Also I'm still missing what's wrong with perf doing ioctl() on
> events on all cpus manually when bpf program tells it to do so.
> Is it speed you concerned about or extra work in perf ?
>
>

For not having too much wakeups, perf ringbuffer has a watermark
limit to cache events and reduce the wakeups, which causes perf
userspace tool can not receive perf events immediately.

Here's a simple demo expamle to prove it, 'sleep_exec' does some
writes and prints a timestamp every second, and an lable is
printed when perf poll gets events.

   $ perf record -m 2 -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 1000
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 1 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 2 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 3 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   userspace sleep time: 4 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 5 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 6 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 7 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 1
   userspace sleep time: 8 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 2
   ..

   $ perf record -m 1 -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 1000
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 1 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   userspace sleep time: 2 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 3 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 1
   userspace sleep time: 4 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 5 seconds
   ..

By default, if no mmap_pages is specified, perf tools wakeup only
when the target executalbe finished:

   $ perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 5
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 1 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 2 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 3 seconds
   userspace sleep time: 4 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.006 MB perf.data (54 samples) ]

If we want perf to reflect as soon as our sample event be generated,
--no-buffering should be used, but this option has a greater
impact on performance.

   $ perf record --no-buffering -e syscalls:sys_enter_write sleep_exec 1000
   userspace sleep time: 0 seconds
   perf record wakeup onetime 0
   perf record wakeup onetime 1
   perf record wakeup onetime 2
   perf record wakeup onetime 3
   perf record wakeup onetime 4
   perf record wakeup onetime 5
   perf record wakeup onetime 6
   ..

Thank you

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[RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com> - 2015-10-12 11:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement  bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> - 2015-10-12 21:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable()  helpers "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2015-10-13 05:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement  bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> - 2015-10-13 05:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable()  helpers "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2015-10-13 06:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement  bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> - 2015-10-13 06:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable()  helpers "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2015-10-13 06:40 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement  bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> - 2015-10-13 07:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable()  helpers "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2015-10-13 09:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement  bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> - 2015-10-13 13:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable()  helpers "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2015-10-13 13:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] bpf: Implement  bpf_perf_event_sample_enable/disable() helpers Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> - 2015-10-14 07:20 +0200

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