Re: [RFC 2/2] perf stat: Fix shadow stats for clock events

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 03:25:33PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Commit 0aa802a79469 ("perf stat: Get rid of extra clock display
> function") introduced scale and unit for clock events. Thus,
> perf_stat__update_shadow_stats() now saves scaled values of
> clock events in msecs, instead of original nsecs. But while
> calculating values of shadow stats we still consider clock
> event values in nsecs. This results in a wrong shadow stat
> values. Ex,
> 
>   # ./perf stat -e task-clock,cycles ls
>     <SNIP>
>               2.62 msec task-clock:u    #    0.624 CPUs utilized
>          2,501,536      cycles:u        # 1250768.000 GHz
> 
> Fix this by considering clock events's saved stats in msecs:
> 
>   # ./perf stat -e task-clock,cycles ls
>     <SNIP>
>               2.42 msec task-clock:u    #    0.754 CPUs utilized
>          2,338,747      cycles:u        #    1.169 GHz
> 
> Note:
> The problem with this approach is, we are losing fractional part
> while converting nsecs to msecs. This results in a sightly different
> values of shadow stats.

yea, could we just leave the NSEC instead? like below

jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index f4bad808bdd9..da8857df238e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -209,11 +209,12 @@ void perf_stat__update_shadow_stats(struct perf_evsel *counter, u64 count,
 				    int cpu, struct runtime_stat *st)
 {
 	int ctx = evsel_context(counter);
+	u64 count_ns = count;
 
 	count *= counter->scale;
 
 	if (perf_evsel__is_clock(counter))
-		update_runtime_stat(st, STAT_NSECS, 0, cpu, count);
+		update_runtime_stat(st, STAT_NSECS, 0, cpu, count_ns);
 	else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES))
 		update_runtime_stat(st, STAT_CYCLES, ctx, cpu, count);
 	else if (perf_stat_evsel__is(counter, CYCLES_IN_TX))