> On Jul 24, 2019, at 1:33 AM, Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:42:50AM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
>> Hi Jiri,
>>
>>> On Jul 21, 2019, at 4:23 AM, Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>> we have long term goal to separate some of the perf functionality
>>> into library. This patchset is initial effort on separating some
>>> of the interface.
>>>
>>> Currently only the basic counting interface is exported, it allows
>>> to:
>>> - create cpu/threads maps
>>> - create evlist/evsel objects
>>> - add evsel objects into evlist
>>> - open/close evlist/evsel objects
>>> - enable/disable events
>>> - read evsel counts
>>
>> Based on my understanding, evsel and evlist are abstractions in
>> perf utilities. I think most other tools that use perf UAPIs are
>> not built based on these abstractions. I looked at a few internal
>
> AFAICS some abstraction is needed to carry on the needed stuff
> like mmaps, counts, group links, PMU details (type, cpus..)
>
>> tools. Most of them just uses sys_perf_event_open() and struct
>> perf_event_attr. I am not sure whether these tools would adopt
>> libperf, as libperf changes their existing concepts/abstractions.
>
> well, besides that we wanted to do this separation for tools/* sake,
> I think that once libperf shares more interface on sampling and pmu
> events parsing, it will be considerable choice also for out of the
> tree tools
Yeah, in tree tools would benefit from it for sure. And they should
also motivate out of the tree tools to use libperf.
>
>>>
>>> The initial effort was to have total separation of the objects
>>> from perf code, but it showed not to be a good way. The amount
>>> of changed code was too big with high chance for regressions,
>>> mainly because of the code embedding one of the above objects
>>> statically.
>>>
>>> We took the other approach of sharing the objects/struct details
>>> within the perf and libperf code. This way we can keep perf
>>> functionality without any major changes and the libperf users
>>> are still separated from the object/struct details. We can move
>>> to total libperf's objects separation gradually in future.
>>
>> I found some duplicated logic between libperf and perf, for
>> example, perf_evlist__open() and evlist__open(). Do we plan to
>> merge them in the future?
>
> yea, as I wrote in the perf_evsel__open patch changelog:
>
> It's a simplified version of evsel__open without fallback
> stuff. We can try to merge it in the future to libperf,
> but it has many glitches.
I was reading the code in your git tree and missed the change
log.
Thanks for the explanations.
Song
