Re: [PATCH RESEND v6] perf: Add SNOOP_PEER flag to perf mem data struct

From: Leo Yan
Date: Fri Aug 26 2022 - 02:20:04 EST


On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 01:17:18PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 01:16:03PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > From: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add a flag to the perf mem data struct to signal that a request caused a
> > cache-to-cache transfer of a line from a peer of the requestor and
> > wasn't sourced from a lower cache level. The line being moved from one
> > peer cache to another has latency and performance implications. On Arm64
> > Neoverse systems the data source can indicate a cache-to-cache transfer
> > but not if the line is dirty or clean, so instead of overloading HITM
> > define a new flag that indicates this type of transfer.
> >
> > Update notes:
> >
> > This patch is to sync the headers between kernel and user space, commit
> > 2e21bcf0514a ("perf tools: Sync addition of PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER") for
> > updating kernel header has been merged in the mainline code.
>
> Hi Peter, could you help to merge this patch? Thanks!

I sent a new patch with adding my SoB:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220826060556.176681-1-leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u

Sorry for spamming.