Re: [edk2-devel] Is there any use case of FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm.inf now?

["Kun Qin" <kuqin12@gmail.com>]

Hi Dandan,

Thanks for letting me know. I added Bret and Sean to the thread for 
broader view in our scope.

But currently our StandaloneMm Core does not report performance data to 
FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm module.

Is the idea to centralize the performance report collection job to 
SmmCorePerformanceLib and remove the FirmwarePerformance**Mm driver? Is 
there any plan to support a Standalone instance once the traditional MM 
version is functional?

Thanks,
Kun


On 08/05/2021 04:44, Dandan Bi wrote:
> Hi Kun,
> 
> I plan to make some change for FirmwarePerformanceSmm.inf, may also 
> update the behavior of FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm.inf as they are 
> sharing codes now.
> 
> And I saw you are the submitter of this driver. Could you help clarify 
> following questions ? Thanks in advance.
> 
>  1. Do you have the use case to leverage
>     FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm.inf to collect Standalone MM
>     performance data now?
>  2. Do you have any Library/module used by StandaloneMmCore to collect
>     Standalone MM performance data and report the data to
>     FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm like the SmmCorePerformanceLib used
>     for SMM core?
>  3. I plan to move some logic from FirmwarePerformanceDataTableSmm to
>     SmmCorePerformanceLib as below. Do you think is it ok just to remove
>     them from FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm.inf now?
> 
> If there is not any module to report Standalone MM performance data to 
> FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm.inf, I think it should be OK to remove 
> them from FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm now.
> 
> Change:
> 
> SMM performance data collection now:
> 
>  1. SmmCorePerformanceLib collect all the performance data in SMM and
>     report the data to FirmwarePerformanceDataTableSmm through status
>     code. **
>  2. DxeCorePerformanceLib will communicate with
>     FirmwarePerformanceDataTableSmm to get the SMM performance data and
>     allocate performance table to store all the performance data.
> 
> Now I want to simplify the process to make DxeCorePerformanceLib 
> communicate with SmmCorePerformanceLib directly to collect SMM 
> performance data, so FirmwarePerformanceDataTableSmm don’t need to get 
> the SMM performance data from SmmCorePerformanceLib and register SMI 
> handler for the communication with DxeCorePerformanceLib.
> 
> For FirmwarePerformanceStandaloneMm.inf, just remove this logic if there 
> is no module to prepare MM performance data to it now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dandan
> 
>