Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf/x86/mbm: Fix mbm counting when RMIDs are reused

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:44:53AM -0700, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> >On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:27:20PM -0700, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
> >>When multiple instances of perf reuse RMID, then we need to start
> >>counting for each instance rather than reporting the current RMID count.
> >>This patch adds a st_count(start count) per event to track the same.
> >
> >what?
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> Will fix the comit log :
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> When multiple instances of perf reuse RMID for the same PID, then we need to
> start counting from zero for each new event, rather than reporting the
> current RMID. This patch adds a st_count(start count) per event to track the
> same.
> 
> For ex:
> 1.RMID1's total_bytes is 100MB for event1(PID1)
> 2.another perf instance starts measuring the same PID1 with event2. We reuse
> RMID1 as the PID1 is already counted.
> 3.event2 stores st_count as 100MB.
> 4.After some time, when user wants to count event2 and say RMID1's current
> total_bytes 110MB, we report 110MB - 100MB = 10MB

This is naturally handled by the scheme I outlined in the other patch.