Re: [PATCH RFC 02/10] perf,tools: Support new sort type --socket

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:25:38AM -0400, kan.liang@intel.com wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
> 
> This patch enable perf report to sort by socket
> 

SNIP

> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> index 7e38716..245e254 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> @@ -421,6 +421,33 @@ struct sort_entry sort_cpu = {
>  	.se_width_idx	= HISTC_CPU,
>  };
>  
> +/* --sort socket */
> +
> +static int64_t
> +sort__socket_cmp(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right)
> +{
> +	int r_socket, l_socket;
> +
> +	r_socket = cpu__get_socket(right->cpu);
> +	l_socket = cpu__get_socket(left->cpu);
> +	return r_socket - l_socket;

we need global topology information in perf.data and use
the mapping from there, we can't use current server info

we currently store core_siblings_list and thread_siblings_list,
in topology FEATURE, which is probably not enough

I think we need new feature that stores topology info and
new interface that will provide all useful mappings:
  idx -> cpu
  cpu -> core
  cpu -> socket
  cpu -> node

in another patchset I used new CPUMAP event:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git/commit/?h=perf/stat_script_3&id=37b7b8449aa23acdfe9dec5a7a371e91c5323da5

we might need both ways (new FEATURE and event) to support pipe reports

jirka