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From: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@linux.intel.com,
	kan.liang@intel.com, yao.jin@intel.com,
	Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 4/4] perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:54:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1543586097-27632-5-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1543586097-27632-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com>

Add explanations for new columns "IPC" and "IPC coverage" in perf
documentation.

 v5:
 ---
 Update the description according to Ingo's comments.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 474a494..ed2bf37 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ OPTIONS
 	And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to
 	and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'.
 
+	When the sort key symbol is specified, columns "IPC" and "IPC Coverage"
+	are enabled automatically. Column "IPC" reports the average IPC per function
+	and column "IPC coverage" reports the percentage of instructions with
+	sampled IPC in this function. IPC means Instruction Per Cycle. If it's low,
+	it indicates there may be a performance bottleneck when the function is
+	executed, such as a memory access bottleneck. If a function has high overhead
+	and low IPC, it's worth further analyzing it to optimize its performance.
+
 	If the --mem-mode option is used, the following sort keys are also available
 	(incompatible with --branch-stack):
 	symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop, dcacheline.
-- 
2.7.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-30  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-30 13:54 [PATCH v5 0/4] perf report/annotate: Support average IPC and IPC coverage for function Jin Yao
2018-11-30 13:54 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] perf annotate: Compute average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol Jin Yao
2018-12-14 20:31   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-12-18 13:58   ` tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-11-30 13:54 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag in struct symbol Jin Yao
2018-12-14 20:32   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-12-18 13:59   ` tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-11-30 13:54 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol Jin Yao
2018-12-14 20:33   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-12-18 14:00   ` tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-11-30 13:54 ` Jin Yao [this message]
2018-12-14 20:33   ` [tip:perf/core] perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-12-18 14:00   ` tip-bot for Jin Yao
2018-11-30 19:25 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] perf report/annotate: Support average IPC and IPC coverage for function Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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