Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] perf vendor events arm64: Update N2 and V2 metrics and events using Arm telemetry repo

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 13:14:47 EST


Em Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 03:41:11PM +0100, James Clark escreveu:
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> On 17/08/2023 12:09, John Garry wrote:
> > On 16/08/2023 12:47, James Clark wrote:
> >> Apart from some slight naming and grouping differences, the new metrics
> >> are functionally the same as the existing ones. Any missing metrics were
> >> manually appended to the end of the auto generated file.
> >>
> >> For the events, the new data includes descriptions that may have product
> >> specific details and new groupings that will be consistent with other
> >> products.
> >>
> >> After generating the metrics from the telemetry repo [1], the following
> >> manual steps were performed:
> >>
> >>   * Change the topdown expressions to compare on CPUID and use
> >>     #slots so that the same data can be shared between N2 and V2. Apart
> >>     from these modifications, the expressions now match more closely with
> >>     the Arm telemetry data which will hopefully make future updates
> >>     easier.
> >>
> >>   * Append some metrics from the old N2/V2 data that aren't present in
> >>     the telemetry data. These will possibly be added to the
> >>     telemetry-solution repo at a later time:
> >>
> >>      l3d_cache_mpki, l3d_cache_miss_rate, branch_pki, ipc_rate, spec_ipc,
> >>      retired_rate, wasted_rate, branch_immed_spec_rate,
> >>      branch_return_spec_rate, branch_indirect_spec_rate
> >>
> >> [1]:https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gitlab.arm.com/telemetry-solution/telemetry-solution/-/blob/main/data/pmu/cpu/neoverse/neoverse-n2.json__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NW7DYe7T69u8RFn9WLyiCcoHm-8BtlxNK3PRw19udocwlwv0vQpjcSDT5XqGbWzvPQyFrG-eRkuu_VZt7cO8-Q$ ;
> >> Signed-off-by: James Clark<james.clark@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the reviews!

Thanks everybody, patches merged, reviewed-by tags collected.

- Arnaldo