[PATCH v5 3/5] perf tools: sync addition of PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER

Leo Yan leo.yan at linaro.org
Wed Apr 20 01:23:11 PDT 2022


On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 03:35:52PM +0100, German Gomez wrote:
> 
> On 11/04/2022 11:26, German Gomez wrote:
> > On 08/04/2022 20:53, Ali Saidi wrote:
> >> 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.
> > I think it's fine to merge this and the previous commit rather than have
> > two commits with the same msg.
> >
> 
> I take it back. It has been pointed out to me that having the separation
> is normal/ok. So my comment doesn't apply.

Yeah, it's good that we split these two patches since it's easier
for maintainer to pick up separately :)

Thanks,
Leo



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