Re: Add top down metrics to perf stat

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:58:38PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:44:49PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
> >     
> > The formulas to compute the metrics are generic, they
> > only change based on the availability on the abstracted
> > input values.
> >     
> > The kernel declares the events supported by the current
> > CPU and perf stat then computes the formulas based on the
> > available metrics.
> > 
> > 
> > Example output:
> > 
> > $ perf stat --topdown -I 1000 cmd
> >      1.000735655                   frontend bound       retiring             bad speculation      backend bound        
> >      1.000735655 S0-C0           2    47.84%              11.69%               8.37%              32.10%           
> >      1.000735655 S0-C1           2    45.53%              11.39%               8.52%              34.56%           

Hi Jiri,
> 
> you've lost first 3 header lines (time/core/cpus):
> 
> [jolsa@ibm-x3650m4-01 perf]$ sudo ./perf stat --per-core -e cycles -I 1000 -a
> #           time core         cpus             counts unit events
>      1.000310344 S0-C0           2      3,764,470,414      cycles                                                      
>      1.000310344 S0-C1           2      3,764,445,293      cycles                                                      
>      1.000310344 S0-C2           2      3,764,428,422      cycles                                                      

I can't reproduce that.

The headers look the same as before.

> 
> also I'm still getting -0% as I mentioned in my previous comment:

Keeping the NMI watchdog enabled can make the formulas inaccurate
because the grouping is disabled, and parts of the formulas
may be measured at different times where the execution profile
is different.

But anyways even without that it can be caused by small inaccuracies,
and then during rounding the value rounds to 0.
I can remove the - for this case.

Otherwise the data looks reasonable.

-Andi

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