Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:55:33 +0100 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf, tools: Fix metrics calculation with event qualifiers |
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On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 04:55:22PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > Currently in perf IPC and other metrics cannot be directly shown > separately for both user and kernel in a single run. The problem was > that the metrics matching code did not check event qualifiers. > > With this patch the following case works correctly. > > % perf stat -e cycles:k,cycles:u,instructions:k,instructions:u true > > Performance counter stats for 'true': > > 531,718 cycles:k > 203,895 cycles:u > 338,151 instructions:k # 0.64 insns per cycle > 105,961 instructions:u # 0.52 insns per cycle > > 0.002989739 seconds time elapsed > > Previously it would misreport the ratios because they were matching > the wrong value. > > The patch is fairly big, but quite mechanic as it just > adds context indexes everywhere. > > Reported-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
I like the patch, but your new version doesn't address Ingo's comments on first version: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139748629929175&w=2
I can make follow up patch, if you are not going to work on that, because I think this is really needed.. let me know
jirka
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