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Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:12:42 +0700
Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On 02/22/2016 09:07 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:00:31PM +0700, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:  
> >>> So I really don't have time to review new muck while I'm hunting perf
> >>> core fail, but Boris made me look at this.
> >>>
> >>> This is crazy, if you have multiple IOMMUs then create an event per
> >>> IOMMU, do _NOT_ fold them all into a single event.  
> >>
> >> These are system-wide events, which are programmed on every IOMMU the same
> >> way. I am not sure what you meant by creating an event per IOMMU. Do you
> >> mean I should create internal per-IOMMU struct perf_event for each event?  
> >
> > No, I meant to expose each IOMMU individually to userspace, as a
> > separate device.
> >
> > Is there never a case to profile just one of the IOMMUs ?
> >  
> 
> I see. That's definitely doable and simpler to implement.
> 
> I was not sure if making users specify the IOMMU instance (e.g. 
> amd_iommu_0/<ev name> , amd_iommu_1/<ev_name>, ....) would be too 
> tedious. However, this would actually give users better control of the 
> performance events, which is a good trade-off. I think it is acceptable.
> 
> I'll make the change and send this out in V5.

We already expose individual IOMMU hardware units in /sys/class/iommu/,
you might consider trying to match the names there for the convenience
of the user.  Looks like we use ivhd%d for AMD.  Thanks,

Alex

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[PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-02-11 10:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-18 14:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-02-22 09:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-22 15:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-02-23 06:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple  IOMMUs Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2016-02-23 06:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-02-23 11:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V4 5/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable support for multiple IOMMUs Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-02-18 14:30 +0100

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