Re: [PATCH 01/11] perf, tools: Add tools support for cycles, weight branch_info field

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Jun 01 2015 - 10:16:24 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:51:44AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> cycles is a new branch_info field available on some CPUs
> that indicates the time deltas between branches in the LBR.
>
> Add a sort key and output code for the cycles
> to allow to display the basic block cycles individually in perf report.
>
> We also pass in the cycles for weight when LBRs are processed,
> which allows to get global and local weight, to get an estimate
> of the total cost.
>
> And also print the cycles information for perf report -D.
> I also added printing for the previously missing LBR flags
> (mispredict etc.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka
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