From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752278AbbCIH4F (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 03:56:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34284 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbbCIHzv (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 03:55:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:55:33 +0100 From: Jiri Olsa To: Andi Kleen Cc: acme@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf, tools: Fix metrics calculation with event qualifiers Message-ID: <20150309075533.GB27885@krava.brq.redhat.com> References: <1425858924-31414-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1425858924-31414-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1425858924-31414-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 04:55:22PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 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