Re: [PATCH v7] perf: Add SNOOP_PEER flag to perf mem data struct

From: Leo Yan
Date: Thu Sep 08 2022 - 11:00:16 EST


On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 02:05:56PM +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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kajol Jain<kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Gentle ping ...

Hi Peter, could you pick this patch if it's okay for you?

Thanks,
Leo