Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Rewrite core context handling

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:34:05PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> >> 3. perf_event_pmu_context owns RB tree of events. Since we don't 
> >>   need rotation across multiple hardware PMUs, the rotation is 
> >>   within same perf_event_pmu_context.  
> > 
> > By keeping the RB trees in perf_event_context, we get bigger trees,
> > which is more efficient (log(n+m) < log(n) + log(m))
> > 
> > Also, specifically, it means we only need a single merge sort /
> > iteration to schedule in a full context, instead of (again) doing 'n' of
> > them.
> > 
> > Also, given a context and a pmu, it is cheaper for finding the relevant
> > events; this is needed for big.little for instance. Something the
> > proposed patch doesn't fully flesh out.
> 
> Would it be faster if we add a perf_event_pmu_context pointer to the 
> perf_event? 

+       pmu_ctx = find_get_pmu_context(pmu, ctx, event);
+       if (IS_ERR(pmu_ctx)) {
+               err = PTR_ERR(pmu_ctx);
+               goto err_locked;
+       }
+       event->pmu_ctx = pmu_ctx;

Like that?