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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] perf, tool: Add new event group management
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:44:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 19:15 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > Examples (first event in brackets is group leader):
> >
> > # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock)
> > perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock ls
> > perf record --group parsed -e cpu-clock,task-clock ls
> >
> > # 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
> > perf record --group parsed -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
> > -e minor-faults,major-faults ls
> >
> > # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults)
> > perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
> > -e minor-faults,major-faults ls
> >
> > # 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
> > perf record --group parsed -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
> > -e minor-faults,major-faults -e instructions ls
> >
> > # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions)
> > perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
> > -e minor-faults,major-faults -e instructions ls
>
> I can't help but dislike the --group/--group parsed thing...
>
> How about something like:
>
> event_group = "{", events, "}" , [ ":", event_group_mod ]
>
> Such that you can write things like:
>
> perf record -e "{cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references}"
>
> perf stat -e "{cpu-clock,cycles},{cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references}"
> perf stat -e "{cpu-clock,cycles}" -e "{cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references}"
>
> I'm not sure what the current behaviour of --group is, if you create a
> group like this, do they all sample?
>
> If so, we need some option like:
>
> perf record -e "{cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references}:1"
>
> to mean, only sample on cpu-clock but use PERF_SAMPLE_READ and
> PERF_FORMAT_GROUP to read all siblings on every cpu-clock sample.
>
> Now the disadvantage is that {} needs quotes on bash, the advantage is
> that its completely natural on how to construct groups, without weird
> --group/--group parsed. Also it provides a place for group modifiers.

how about '=group' keyword followed by ':' modifier
perf record -e "cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references=group:1"

or '=$groupname' and use the group name in output like
perf stat -e "task-clock,context-switches=krava:1" ls

Performance counter stats for 'ls':

1.003695 task-clock/krava # 0.083 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches/krava # 0.000 K/sec


jirka


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