Re: 'perf stat --repeat N' oddity/regression

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 13:35:29 EST



So it appears it broke somewhere between v4.0 and v4.1, as the v4.0 install
displays:

16,244,802,268 instructions ( +- 23.01% )

2.108676769 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.86% )


[a few minutes later]

Bisected it down to:

106a94a0f8c207ef4113ce7e32f34a00b3b174e7 is the first bad commit
commit 106a94a0f8c207ef4113ce7e32f34a00b3b174e7
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 26 11:29:19 2015 +0200

perf stat: Introduce read_counters function

So this look like to be a regression.

Thanks,

Ingo