Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf/x86/intel: Basic support for metrics counters

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Tue May 28 2019 - 14:25:17 EST




On 5/28/2019 8:15 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:40:48PM -0700, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
+/*
+ * We model PERF_METRICS as more magic fixed-mode PMCs, one for each metric
+ * and another for the whole slots counter
+ *
+ * Internally they all map to Fixed Ctr 3 (SLOTS), and allocate PERF_METRICS
+ * as an extra_reg. PERF_METRICS has no own configuration, but we fill in
+ * the configuration of FxCtr3 to enforce that all the shared users of SLOTS
+ * have the same configuration.
+ */
+#define INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE (INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 17)
+#define INTEL_PMC_IDX_TD_RETIRING (INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE + 0)
+#define INTEL_PMC_IDX_TD_BAD_SPEC (INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE + 1)
+#define INTEL_PMC_IDX_TD_FE_BOUND (INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE + 2)
+#define INTEL_PMC_IDX_TD_BE_BOUND (INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE + 3)
+#define INTEL_PMC_MSK_ANY_SLOTS ((0xfull << INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE) | \
+ INTEL_PMC_MSK_FIXED_SLOTS)
+static inline bool is_metric_idx(int idx)
+{
+ return idx >= INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE && idx <= INTEL_PMC_IDX_TD_BE_BOUND;
+}

Something like:

return (idx >> INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_METRIC_BASE) & 0xf;

might be faster code... (if it wasn't for 64bit literals being a pain,
it could be a simple test instruction).


is_metric_idx() is not a mask. It's to check if the idx between 49 and 52.

Thanks,
Kan