Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] perf diff: Use hists to manage basic blocks per symbol

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Jun 11 2019 - 05:00:38 EST


On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 07:41:47PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
>
>
> On 6/5/2019 7:44 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 10:36:14PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.h b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
> > > index 43623fa..d1641da 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.h
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
> > > @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ struct hist_entry_diff {
> > > /* HISTC_WEIGHTED_DIFF */
> > > s64 wdiff;
> > > +
> > > + /* PERF_HPP_DIFF__CYCLES */
> > > + s64 cycles;
> > > };
> > > };
> > > @@ -143,6 +146,9 @@ struct hist_entry {
> > > struct branch_info *branch_info;
> > > long time;
> > > struct hists *hists;
> > > + void *block_hists;
> > > + int block_idx;
> > > + int block_num;
> > > struct mem_info *mem_info;
> > > struct block_info *block_info;
> >
> > could you please not add the new block* stuff in here,
> > and instead use the "c2c model" and use yourr own struct
> > on top of hist_entry? we are trying to librarize this
> > stuff and keep only necessary things in here..
> >
> > you're already using hist_entry_ops, so should be easy
> >
> > something like:
> >
> > struct block_hist_entry {
> > void *block_hists;
> > int block_idx;
> > int block_num;
> > struct block_info *block_info;
> >
> > struct hist_entry he;
> > };
> >
> >
> >
> > jirka
> >
>
> Hi Jiri,
>
> After more considerations, maybe I can't move these stuffs from hist_entry
> to block_hist_entry.

why?

>
> Actually we use 2 kinds of hist_entry in this patch series. On kind of
> hist_entry is for symbol/function. The other kind of hist_entry is for basic
> block.

correct

so the way I see it the processing goes like this:


1) there's standard hist_entry processing ending up
with evsel->hists->rb_root full of hist entries

2) then you process every hist_entry and create
new 'struct hists' for each and fill it with
symbol counts data



you could add 'struct hist_entry_ops' for the 1) processing
that adds the 'struct hists' object for each hist_entry

and add another 'struct hist_entry_ops' for 2) processing
to carry the block data for each hist_entry

jirka