Re: [PATCH 13/14] perf tests: Add parse metric test for ipc metric

[Ian Rogers]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:09 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 3:43 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Adding new test that process metrics code and checks
> > > the expected results. Starting with easy ipc metric.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I wonder if there's a better organization with testing in
> > pmu-events.c, expr.c and now parse-metric.c.
>
> hum, so
>  - expr.c is testing core interface,
>  - parse-metric is testing specific metric processing from
>    parsing to final ratio
>  - pmu-events.c is testing pmu events aliases and parsing of
>    all the metrics
>
> pmu-events.c is testing both pmu events and metrics,
> but I think it fits in the way it's done together

Agreed, it makes following this a little bit of a challenge. When I
did the parsing in pmu-events I'd originally done it in expr.c for
example. Perhaps if there were a parse-metric in tools/perf/util then
things would align better as well. Just thinking out loud :-)

Thanks,
Ian

> jirka
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