Re: [patch V2 26/28] x86/perf/intel/rapl: Convert it to a per package facility

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:07:02AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > +static inline struct rapl_pmu *cpu_to_rapl_pmu(unsigned int cpu)
> > +{
> > +	return rapl_pmus->pmus[topology_logical_package_id(cpu)];
> > +}
> 
> > @@ -370,6 +378,7 @@ static int rapl_pmu_event_init(struct pe
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> >  	/* must be done before validate_group */
> > +	pmu = cpu_to_rapl_pmu(event->cpu);
> >  	event->cpu = pmu->cpu;
> >  	event->pmu_private = pmu;
> 
> This again looks like pmu_private is 'trivially' replacable with
> something like:
> 
> static inline struct rapl_pmu *event_to_rapl_pmu(struct perf_event *event)
> {
> 	return cpu_to_rapl_pmu(event->cpu);
> }

Yes, it is. But that's 3 loads versus 1 and we have that in the perf fastpath,
so I prefer to keep the pmu_private add on.

Thanks,

	tglx