From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
rric@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/17] perf: Allow inheritance for detached events
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:40:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9pktsfs.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171003144222.fkwufhowb7lrqwi3@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 04:30:17PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> This enables inheritance for detached events. Unlike traditional events,
>> these do not have parents: inheritance produces a new independent event
>> with the same attribute. If the 'parent' event has a ring buffer, so will
>> the new event. Considering the mlock accounting, this buffer allocation
>> may fail, which in turn will fail the parent's fork, something to be
>> aware of.
>>
>> This also effectively disables context cloning, because unlike the
>> traditional events, these will each have its own ring buffer and
>> context switch optimization can't work.
>
> Right, so this thing is icky... as you know. More naming issues though,
> what will you go and call those files.
Yes. The failing-the-fork ickiness is dealt with later on in 11/17.
But true about the naming.
Regards,
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-06 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 13:30 [RFC PATCH 00/17] perf: Detached events Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] perf: Allow mmapping only user page Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-06 16:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 11:35 ` Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-13 12:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] perf: Factor out mlock accounting Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] tracefs: De-globalize instances' callbacks Alexander Shishkin
2018-01-24 18:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] tracefs: Add ->unlink callback to tracefs_dir_ops Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] perf: Introduce detached events Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-06 11:23 ` Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] perf: Add buffers to the " Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] perf: Add pmu_info to user page Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] perf: Allow inheritance for detached events Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-06 11:40 ` Alexander Shishkin [this message]
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] perf: Use shmemfs pages for userspace-only per-thread " Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-06 11:52 ` Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] perf: Implement pinning and scheduling for SHMEM events Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] perf: Implement mlock accounting for shmem ring buffers Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] perf: Track pinned events per user Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] perf: Re-inject shmem buffers after exec Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] perf: Add ioctl(REATTACH) for detached events Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] perf: Allow controlled non-root access to " Alexander Shishkin
2017-10-03 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] perf/x86/intel/pt: Add PMU info Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-05 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] perf/x86/intel/bts: " Alexander Shishkin
2017-09-06 16:24 ` [RFC PATCH 00/17] perf: Detached events Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 11:54 ` Alexander Shishkin
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