Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] perf, tools, script: Allow computing metrics in perf script

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:04:19AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 01:43:00PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 10 +++-
> >  tools/perf/builtin-script.c              | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c            |  4 ++
> >  3 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
> > index 2811fcf684cb..974ceb12c7f3 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
> > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
> > @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
> >          Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
> >          comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
> >          srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output, brstackinsn,
> > -        brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr.
> > +	brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr, metric.
> >          Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
> >          to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
> >          e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym  and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
> > @@ -217,6 +217,14 @@ OPTIONS
> >  
> >  	The brstackoff field will print an offset into a specific dso/binary.
> >  
> > +	With the metric option perf script can compute metrics for
> > +	sampling periods, similar to perf stat. This requires
> > +	specifying a group with multiple metrics with the :S option
> > +	for perf record. perf will sample on the first event, and
> > +	compute metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
> > +	that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
> > +	period, not just for the sample point.
> 
> hum, is it? I see you call perf_stat__reset_shadow_stats for every
> group start.. which I'd think means you see metric for current
> leader sample point

Yes it is.

It's for the complete sampling period because it is computed
over the delta from the last sample to the previous sample.

There isn't really a metric at a point, it is always over a interval.

-Andi