Re: [QUESTION]perf stat: comment of miss ratio

[John Garry]

On 09/11/2019 02:47, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >     Relevant code is checked to make sure that the ratio is calculated by
> >
> >     L1-dcache-load-misses/L1-dcache-loads, data "7.58%=30249/399189*100%" also
> >
> >     proves this conclusion.
> >
> >     So, I'm not sure why we use "of all L1-dcache hits" here to describe miss
> >     ratio,
>
> Yes you're right it should be "of all L1-dcache accesses"
>
> Please send a patch to fix the string and also check if this isn't wrong with some other
> ratio too.

"    399,189      L1-dcache-loads           #  246.396 M/sec
     30,249      L1-dcache-load-misses     #    7.58% of all L1-dcache 
hits    (18.04%)"


If accesses and loads are equivalent, could we use consistent terminology?

Thanks,
John