Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/fpu: Measure the Latency of XSAVE and XRSTOR

[Sohil Mehta]

Some nits below:

On 7/23/2022 1:37 AM, Yi Sun wrote:
> Calculate the latency of instructions xsave and xrstor with new trace
> points x86_fpu_latency_xsave and x86_fpu_latency_xrstor.
>
> The delta TSC can be calculated within a single trace event. 

s/can be/is

Another
> option considered was to have 2 separated trace events marking the
> start and finish of the xsave/xrstor instructions. The delta TSC was
> calculated from the 2 trace points in user space, but there was
> significant overhead added by the trace function itself.

...

> To enable it, CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_FPU and CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS are required.
> The compiler can get rid of all the extra crust when either of the two

s/can/will


> configs is disabled.

> If both of the two configs are enabled, xsave/xrstor_tracing_enabled

s/two/

> would be reduced to a static check for tracing enabled. Thus, in the
> fast path there would be only 2 additional static checks.

...

> Leave the noise here instead of additional
> conditions before calling the x86_fpu_latency_* because that makes the
> latency more accurate and it's easy to filer the noise out by the

s/filer/filter

> following consuming script.

...

>   
> +DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(x86_fpu_latency,
> +	TP_PROTO(struct fpstate *fpstate, u64 dtsc),

On x86, though TSC is the underlying counter for trace_clock(), it might 
be useful to keep this generic.

s/dtsc/latency

"latency" would match the printk below as well.

> +	TP_ARGS(fpstate, dtsc),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field(struct fpstate *, fpstate)
> +		__field(u64, dtsc)
> +		__field(u64, rfbm)
> +		__field(u64, xinuse)
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__entry->fpstate = fpstate;
> +		__entry->dtsc = dtsc;
> +		__entry->rfbm = fpstate->xfeatures;
> +		__entry->xinuse = fpstate->regs.xsave.header.xfeatures;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("x86/fpu: latency:%lld RFBM:0x%llx XINUSE:0x%llx",
> +		__entry->dtsc,
> +		__entry->rfbm,
> +		__entry->xinuse
> +	)
> +);
> +

-Sohil