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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf stat: improve readability of shadow stats
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:25:24AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 11:08:40AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 4:19 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 01:24:02AM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:
> > > > This does follow two changes:
> > > > 1) Select appropriate unit between K/M/G.
> > > > 2) Use 'cpu-sec' instead of 'sec' to state this is not the wall-time.
> > > >
> > > > $ sudo ./perf stat -a -- sleep 1
> > > >
> > > > Before: Unit 'M' is selected even the number is very small.
> > > > Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> > > >
> > > > 4,003.06 msec cpu-clock # 3.998 CPUs utilized
> > > > 16,179 context-switches # 0.004 M/sec
> > > > 161 cpu-migrations # 0.040 K/sec
> > > > 4,699 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec
> > > > 6,135,801,925 cycles # 1.533 GHz (83.21%)
> > > > 5,783,308,491 stalled-cycles-frontend # 94.26% frontend cycles idle (83.21%)
> > > > 4,543,694,050 stalled-cycles-backend # 74.05% backend cycles idle (66.49%)
> > > > 4,720,130,587 instructions # 0.77 insn per cycle
> > > > # 1.23 stalled cycles per insn (83.28%)
> > > > 753,848,078 branches # 188.318 M/sec (83.61%)
> > > > 37,457,747 branch-misses # 4.97% of all branches (83.48%)
> > > >
> > > > 1.001283725 seconds time elapsed
> > > >
> > > > After:
> > > > $ sudo ./perf stat -a -- sleep 2
> > > >
> > > > Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> > > >
> > > > 8,003.20 msec cpu-clock # 3.998 CPUs utilized
> > > > 9,768 context-switches # 1.221 K/cpu-sec
> > > > 164 cpu-migrations # 20.492 /cpu-sec
> > >
> > > should you remove also the leading '/' in ' /cpu-sec' ?
> >
> > The change looks good. And I think we should keep '/' otherwise it'd be
> > more confusing.
>
> Perhaps:
>
> 8,003.20 msec cpu-clock # 3.998 CPUs utilized
> 9,768 context-switches # 1.221 K/cpu-sec
> 164 cpu-migrations # 20.492 /cpu-sec
>
> ?
>
sure. Now it is:
$ sudo ./perf stat
[sudo] password for changbin:
^C
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

6,046.61 msec cpu-clock # 3.999 CPUs utilized
7,569 context-switches # 1.252 K/sec
587 cpu-migrations # 97.079 /sec
229 page-faults # 37.872 /sec
1,484,855,385 cycles # 0.246 GHz
2,112,863,483 stalled-cycles-frontend # 142.29% frontend cycles idle
1,980,746,623 stalled-cycles-backend # 133.40% backend cycles idle
454,477,035 instructions # 0.31 insn per cycle
# 4.65 stalled cycles per insn
89,992,521 branches # 14.883 M/sec
6,196,599 branch-misses # 6.89% of all branches

1.512029866 seconds time elapsed


> - Arnaldo
>
> > >
> > >
> > > SNIP
> > >
> > > > @@ -1270,18 +1271,14 @@ void perf_stat__print_shadow_stats(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> > > > generic_metric(config, evsel->metric_expr, evsel->metric_events, NULL,
> > > > evsel->name, evsel->metric_name, NULL, 1, cpu, out, st);
> > > > } else if (runtime_stat_n(st, STAT_NSECS, cpu, &rsd) != 0) {
> > > > - char unit = 'M';
> > > > + char unit = ' ';
> > > > char unit_buf[10];
> > > >
> > > > total = runtime_stat_avg(st, STAT_NSECS, cpu, &rsd);
> > > > -
> > > > if (total)
> > > > - ratio = 1000.0 * avg / total;
> > > > - if (ratio < 0.001) {
> > > > - ratio *= 1000;
> > > > - unit = 'K';
> > > > - }
> > > > - snprintf(unit_buf, sizeof(unit_buf), "%c/sec", unit);
> > > > + ratio = convert_unit_double(1000000000.0 * avg / total, &unit);
> > > > +
> > > > + snprintf(unit_buf, sizeof(unit_buf), "%c/cpu-sec", unit);
> > > > print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%8.3f", unit_buf, ratio);
> > >
> > > hum this will change -x output that people parse, so I don't think we can do that
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > >
> > > > } else if (perf_stat_evsel__is(evsel, SMI_NUM)) {
> > > > print_smi_cost(config, cpu, out, st, &rsd);
> > > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/units.c b/tools/perf/util/units.c
> > > > index a46762aec4c9..ac13b5ecde31 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/perf/util/units.c
> > > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/units.c
> > > > @@ -55,6 +55,28 @@ unsigned long convert_unit(unsigned long value, char *unit)
> > > > return value;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > +double convert_unit_double(double value, char *unit)
> > > > +{
> > > > + *unit = ' ';
> > > > +
> > > > + if (value > 1000.0) {
> > > > + value /= 1000.0;
> > > > + *unit = 'K';
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + if (value > 1000.0) {
> > > > + value /= 1000.0;
> > > > + *unit = 'M';
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + if (value > 1000.0) {
> > > > + value /= 1000.0;
> > > > + *unit = 'G';
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + return value;
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > we have convert_unit function just above doing the same only with
> > > unsigned long.. let's have one base function with double values and
> > > another one casting the result to unsigned long
> >
> > Sounds good.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Namhyung
>
> --
>
> - Arnaldo

--
Cheers,
Changbin Du

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