Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] perf report/annotate: Support average IPC and IPC coverage for function
From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 05:13:11 EST
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:24:27PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
>
>
> On 11/28/2018 6:18 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:14:55PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> > > > Add supporting of displaying the average IPC and IPC coverage
> > > > percentage per function.
> > > >
> > > > For example,
> > > >
> > > > $ perf record -b ...
> > > > $ perf report -s symbol or
> > > > perf report -s symbol --stdio
> > > >
> > > > Overhead Symbol IPC [IPC Coverage]
> > > > 39.60% [.] __random 2.30 [ 54.8%]
> > > > 18.02% [.] main 0.43 [ 54.3%]
> > > > 14.21% [.] compute_flag 2.29 [100.0%]
> > > > 14.16% [.] rand 0.36 [100.0%]
> > > > 7.06% [.] __random_r 2.57 [ 70.5%]
> > > > 6.85% [.] rand@plt 0.00 [ 0.0%]
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > $ perf annotate --stdio2
> > > >
> > > > Percent IPC Cycle (Average IPC: 2.30, IPC Coverage: 54.8%)
> > > >
> > > > Disassembly of section .text:
> > > >
> > > > 000000000003aac0 <random@@GLIBC_2.2.5>:
> > > > 8.32 3.28 sub $0x18,%rsp
> > > > 3.28 mov $0x1,%esi
> > > > 3.28 xor %eax,%eax
> > > > 3.28 cmpl $0x0,argp_program_version_hook@@GLIBC_2.2.5+0x1e0
> > > > 11.57 3.28 1 â je 20
> > > > lock cmpxchg %esi,__abort_msg@@GLIBC_PRIVATE+0x8a0
> > > > â jne 29
> > > > â jmp 43
> > > > 11.57 1.10 20: cmpxchg %esi,__abort_msg@@GLIBC_PRIVATE+0x8a0
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > v3:
> > > > ---
> > > > Remove the sortkey "ipc" from command-line. The columns "IPC"
> > > > and "[IPC Coverage]" are automatically enabled when "symbol"
> > > > is specified.
> > > >
> > > > Patch "perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol"
> > > > is impacted.
> > > >
> > > > v2:
> > > > ---
> > > > 1. Merge in Jiri's patch to support stdio mode
> > > >
> > > > 2. Add a new patch "perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag
> > > > in struct symbol" which records if the symbol has been
> > > > annotated yet.
> > > >
> > > > 3. Minor update such as adding { } for multiline code in 'if'
> > > > condition.
> > > >
> > > > Jin Yao (3):
> > > > perf annotate: Compute average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol
> > > > perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag in struct symbol
> > > > perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol
> > >
> > > hi,
> > > I took he liberty and moved the annotation retrieval into
> > > resort phase under progress bar scope. It's currently on top
> > > of my perf/fixes branch, could you please check it?
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
> >
> > commits:
> > 7f3ffdb9783f perf tools: Move symbol annotation to resort
> > e87f7d3c4f10 perf tools: Add perf_evsel__output_resort_cb function
> > 40012b422108 perf tools: Add argument to hists__resort_cb_t callback
> >
> > jirka
> >
>
> Hi Jiri,
>
> Thanks for your patches. I have tested with your repo. Now I can see 2
> progress bars. One is displayed at the events processing phase, the other is
> displayed at resorting phase.
>
> I have only one concern that is, in my test, much of time is consumed by the
> event processing phase, for example, 90% of time. Only 10% of time is
> consumed at resorting phase.
>
> So do we really need the second progress bar?
well I did not add it, it's been always there, it just must
have been real quick for you so u did not notice I guess
it's strange, because for me the resorting takes much longer
even for small data.. let's have your patchset applied and
have this discussion when I send out the patches
thanks,
jirka