RE: [PATCH v15 0/4] add support for self monitoring

[Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski@marvell.com>]

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>From: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski@marvell.com>
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>Subject: [PATCH v15 0/4] add support for self monitoring
>
>This series adds self monitoring support i.e allows to configure and read performance measurement
>unit (PMU) counters in runtime without using perf utility. This has certain advantages when
>application runs on isolated cores running dedicated tasks.
>
>Events can be read directly using rte_pmu_read() or using dedicated tracepoint
>rte_eal_trace_pmu_read(). The latter will cause events to be stored inside CTF file.
>
>By design, all enabled events are grouped together and the same group is attached to lcores that
>use self monitoring funtionality.
>
>Events are enabled by names, which need to be read from standard location under sysfs i.e
>
>/sys/bus/event_source/devices/PMU/events
>
>where PMU is a core pmu i.e one measuring cpu events. As of today raw events are not supported.
>
>v15:
>- add some basic logs related to API failures
>- get rid of thread-local-storage
>- do not support MT-safety (which was buggy anyway) in management APIs (rte_pmu_init(),
>  rte_pmu_fini(), rte_pmu_add_{event,events_by_pattern}() as it impacts rte_pmu_read()
>  performance because more logic needs to be incorporated to handle all corner cases
>- improve documentation slightly
>- various other improvements here and there
>v14:
>- replace __atomic_xxx with rte_atomic_xxx
>- rebase to dpdk/main since that's a new feature
>v13:
>- allow init/fini calling from multiple contexts
>- get rid of conditional compilation and return erors in case APIs are
>  used on unsupported OS
>v12:
>- rebase old series
>- slightly refresh existing documentation
>- make sure compiler won't optimize accesses to certain variables during
>  event readout
>- drop previous Acked-by to respin a fresh review cycle
>v11:
>- skip fast test in case init fails
>v10:
>- check permissions before using counters
>- do not use internal symbols in exported functions
>- address review comments
>v9:
>- fix 'maybe-uninitialized' warning reported by CI
>v8:
>- just rebase series
>v7:
>- use per-lcore event group instead of global table index by lcore-id
>- don't add pmu_autotest to fast tests because due to lack of suported
>  on every arch
>v6:
>- move codebase to the separate library
>- address review comments
>v5:
>- address review comments
>- fix sign extension while reading pmu on x86
>- fix regex mentioned in doc
>- various minor changes/improvements here and there
>v4:
>- fix freeing mem detected by debug_autotest
>v3:
>- fix shared build
>v2:
>- fix problems reported by test build infra
>
>Tomasz Duszynski (4):
>  lib: add generic support for reading PMU events
>  pmu: support reading ARM PMU events in runtime
>  pmu: support reading Intel x86_64 PMU events in runtime
>  eal: add PMU support to tracing library
>
> MAINTAINERS                              |   5 +
> app/test/meson.build                     |   1 +
> app/test/test_pmu.c                      |  55 +++
> app/test/test_trace_perf.c               |  10 +
> doc/api/doxy-api-index.md                |   3 +-
> doc/api/doxy-api.conf.in                 |   1 +
> doc/guides/prog_guide/profile_app.rst    |  34 ++
> doc/guides/prog_guide/trace_lib.rst      |  32 ++
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst   |   7 +
> lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace.c        |   5 +-
> lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace_pmu.c    |  38 ++
> lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace_points.c |   5 +
> lib/eal/common/eal_trace.h               |   4 +
> lib/eal/common/meson.build               |   1 +
> lib/eal/include/rte_eal_trace.h          |  11 +
> lib/eal/meson.build                      |   3 +
> lib/eal/version.map                      |   1 +
> lib/meson.build                          |   1 +
> lib/pmu/meson.build                      |  22 +
> lib/pmu/pmu_arm64.c                      |  94 ++++
> lib/pmu/pmu_private.h                    |  32 ++
> lib/pmu/rte_pmu.c                        | 536 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/pmu/rte_pmu.h                        | 229 ++++++++++
> lib/pmu/rte_pmu_pmc_arm64.h              |  30 ++
> lib/pmu/rte_pmu_pmc_x86_64.h             |  24 +
> lib/pmu/version.map                      |  14 +
> 26 files changed, 1196 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)  create mode 100644 app/test/test_pmu.c
>create mode 100644 lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace_pmu.c
> create mode 100644 lib/pmu/meson.build
> create mode 100644 lib/pmu/pmu_arm64.c
> create mode 100644 lib/pmu/pmu_private.h  create mode 100644 lib/pmu/rte_pmu.c  create mode 100644
>lib/pmu/rte_pmu.h  create mode 100644 lib/pmu/rte_pmu_pmc_arm64.h  create mode 100644
>lib/pmu/rte_pmu_pmc_x86_64.h  create mode 100644 lib/pmu/version.map
>
>--
>2.34.1

Hi, 

Did anyone interested have a time to look into latest series?