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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/18] perf metric: Add events for the current group
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:19 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:00:09AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 6:27 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > There's no need to iterate the whole list of groups,
> > > when adding new events. The currently created group
> > > is the one we want to add.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > > tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
> > > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> > > index 8cbcc5e05fef..66f25362702d 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> > > @@ -811,17 +811,19 @@ static int metricgroup__add_metric(const char *metric, bool metric_no_group,
> >
> > Could we add a function comment to describe the arguments here?
>
> ok
>
> > Currently events is an empty list out argument that is built up by
> > this code, now it will be incrementally updated. Except I don't think
> > I'm capturing the current state correctly, it is confusing that there
> > is the loop in the current code. It looks like events will be added
> > multiple times redundantly.
>
> oops, I meant to add the example of broken processing in here,
> but forgot.. will update
>
> >
> > > if (ret)
> > > return ret;
> > >
> > > - list_for_each_entry(eg, group_list, nd) {
> > > - if (events->len > 0)
> > > - strbuf_addf(events, ",");
> > > + if (events->len > 0)
> > > + strbuf_addf(events, ",");
> > >
> > > - if (eg->has_constraint) {
> > > - metricgroup__add_metric_non_group(events,
> > > - &eg->pctx);
> > > - } else {
> > > - metricgroup__add_metric_weak_group(events,
> > > - &eg->pctx);
> > > - }
> > > + /*
> > > + * Even if we add multiple groups through the runtime
> > > + * param, they share same events.
> > > + */
> >
> > I'm not clear what runtime param is here. Is it the \? arch runtime parameter?
>
> yes, that's that ppc quirk.. adding extra same metrics based
> on that runtime param.. for some reason ;-)

Do they share the same event? I thought the "?" was substituted in a
loop for a value 0...arch_runtime_value and so you got an event for
each of those values.

Thanks,
Ian

> thanks,
> jirka
>

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