Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/pmu-events: Use CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD in Kernel_Utilization metric

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:30:25PM -0400, Liang, Kan escreveu:
> 
> 
> On 3/8/2020 9:31 PM, Jin Yao wrote:
> > The kernel utilization metric does multiplexing currently and is somewhat
> > unreliable. The problem is that it uses two instances of the fixed counter,
> > and the kernel has to multipleplex which causes errors. So should use
> > CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD instead.
> > 
> > Before:
> > 
> >    # perf stat -M Kernel_Utilization -- sleep 1
> > 
> >    Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
> > 
> >            1,419,425      cpu_clk_unhalted.ref_tsc:k
> >        <not counted>      cpu_clk_unhalted.ref_tsc	(0.00%)
> > 
> > After:
> > 
> >    # perf stat -M Kernel_Utilization -- sleep 1
> > 
> >    Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
> > 
> >              746,688      cpu_clk_unhalted.thread:k #      0.7 Kernel_Utilization
> >            1,088,348      cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo