Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Don't compute events that won't be used in a metric.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Sep 20 2021 - 09:46:18 EST



On 9/17/2021 11:35 PM, Ian Rogers wrote:
For a metric like:
EVENT1 if #smt_on else EVENT2
currently EVENT1 and EVENT2 will be measured and then when the metric
is reported EVENT1 or EVENT2 will be printed depending on the value
from smt_on() during the expr parsing. Computing both events is
unnecessary and can lead to multiplexing as discussed in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201110100346.2527031-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/

This change modifies expression parsing so that constants are
considered when building the set of ids (events) and only events not
contributing to a constant value are measured.


The series looks good to me.


Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


-Andi