Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2 -tip] perf_counter: parse-events.c introduce alias member in event_symbol | From | Jaswinder Singh Rajput <> | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:32:12 +0530 |
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On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > perf test also need some command to execute otherwise it will also > > show long list of <inactive> > > I think what it should do is to execute test-cases _internally_. Not > just execute some random command on the system and hope for events. >
Can you suggest some good test cases where we can get numbers for almost all the events on each and every run.
> > context-switches 7956 > > CPU-migrations 7 > > this needs to be provoked intentionally via sched_setaffinity(): > first migrate to cpu0, then to cpu1. >
There should be some option from user or we test it each time.
> > L1-data-Cache-Load-Referencees 398303881 > > L1-data-Cache-Load-Misses 3552374 > > L1-data-Cache-Store-Referencees 270178 > > L1-data-Cache-Store-Misses <inactive> > > this is probably inactive due to AMD not having events for that and > the generic cache event being 0 there, right? >
Yes, it is not set for AMD.
Thanks, -- JSR
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