From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756792AbeAHVKy (ORCPT + 1 other); Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:10:54 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:34320 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751953AbeAHVKw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:10:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 13:10:50 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: Jiri Olsa Cc: Julia Lawall , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , Namhyung Kim , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: perf: documentation for cycles_no_execute event Message-ID: <20180108211049.bbtq7uvaec3hhjyz@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20180108140008.GA17156@krava> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180108140008.GA17156@krava> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: > > Many of the x86 pipeline.json files have the brief description "Total > > execution stalls" for both CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_NO_EXECUTE and > > CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_TOTAL. Should the case for > > CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_NO_EXECUTE have a brief description that mentions > > cycles? Some of the files do have a public description that mentions > > cycles, eg broadwellde/pipeline.json has "Counts number of cycles nothing > > is executed on any execution port.", but others (eg ivytown/pipeline.json) > > just have "Total execution stalls." twice. Maybe "Cycles where nothing is > > executed" would be ok for CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_NO_EXECUTE? Yes it's all in cycles Will clarify in a future event list update. -Andi