RE: [PATCH V7 6/8] perf,tools: Dump per-sample freq/CPU%/CORE_BUSY% in report -D

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Mon Aug 31 2015 - 15:10:54 EST




> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:48:07AM -0400, Kan Liang wrote:
> > From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The group read results from cycles/ref-cycles/TSC/ASTATE/MSTATE
> event
> > can be used to calculate the frequency, CPU Utilization and percent
> > performance during each sampling period.
> > This patch shows them in report -D.
> >
> > Here is an example:
> >
> > $ perf record -e
> > '{cycles,ref-cycles,msr/tsc/,msr/mperf/,msr/aperf/}:S' ~/tchain_edit
>
> so this perf cord set of events is set when you want to get the freq
> data/ratios.. I think we should not force user to specify this on command
> line and provide short option for that like
>
> $ perf record --freq ~/tchain_edit
>
> we already do this in perf stat for transactions.. you can also check the
> existence of particular events and warn user appropriatelly if any is missing
>
Yes, we can do that, but should be in separate patch.

Thanks,
Kan
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