From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>,
Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>,
Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>,
Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>,
Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>,
Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@intel.com>,
Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>,
Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>,
Edward Baker <edward.baker@intel.com>,
Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 13/22] perf jevents: Add context switch metrics for Intel
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 21:46:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904044653.1002362-14-irogers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250904044653.1002362-1-irogers@google.com>
Metrics break down context switches for different kinds of
instruction.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
index ba3983920fb3..4f8dc054ad98 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
@@ -262,6 +262,60 @@ def IntelBr():
description="breakdown of retired branch instructions")
+def IntelCtxSw() -> MetricGroup:
+ cs = Event("context\\-switches")
+ metrics = [
+ Metric("lpm_cs_rate", "Context switches per second", d_ratio(cs, interval_sec), "ctxsw/s")
+ ]
+
+ ev = Event("instructions")
+ metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_instr", "Instructions per context switch",
+ d_ratio(ev, cs), "instr/cs"))
+
+ ev = Event("cycles")
+ metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_cycles", "Cycles per context switch",
+ d_ratio(ev, cs), "cycles/cs"))
+
+ try:
+ ev = Event("MEM_INST_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS", "MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS")
+ metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_loads", "Loads per context switch",
+ d_ratio(ev, cs), "loads/cs"))
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ try:
+ ev = Event("MEM_INST_RETIRED.ALL_STORES", "MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_STORES")
+ metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_stores", "Stores per context switch",
+ d_ratio(ev, cs), "stores/cs"))
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ try:
+ ev = Event("BR_INST_RETIRED.NEAR_TAKEN", "BR_INST_RETIRED.TAKEN_JCC")
+ metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_br_taken", "Branches taken per context switch",
+ d_ratio(ev, cs), "br_taken/cs"))
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ try:
+ l2_misses = (Event("L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_MISS") +
+ Event("L2_RQSTS.RFO_MISS") +
+ Event("L2_RQSTS.CODE_RD_MISS"))
+ try:
+ l2_misses += Event("L2_RQSTS.HWPF_MISS", "L2_RQSTS.L2_PF_MISS", "L2_RQSTS.PF_MISS")
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_l2_misses", "L2 misses per context switch",
+ d_ratio(l2_misses, cs), "l2_misses/cs"))
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ return MetricGroup("lpm_cs", metrics,
+ description = ("Number of context switches per second, instructions "
+ "retired & core cycles between context switches"))
+
+
def IntelIlp() -> MetricGroup:
tsc = Event("msr/tsc/")
c0 = Event("msr/mperf/")
@@ -671,6 +725,7 @@ def main() -> None:
Smi(),
Tsx(),
IntelBr(),
+ IntelCtxSw(),
IntelIlp(),
IntelL2(),
IntelLdSt(),
--
2.51.0.338.gd7d06c2dae-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-04 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-04 4:46 [PATCH v6 00/22] Python generated Intel metrics Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 01/22] perf jevents: Add RAPL metrics for all Intel models Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 02/22] perf jevents: Add idle metric for " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 03/22] perf jevents: Add CheckPmu to see if a PMU is in loaded json events Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 04/22] perf jevents: Add smi metric group for Intel models Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 05/22] perf jevents: Mark metrics with experimental events as experimental Ian Rogers
2025-09-17 18:02 ` Falcon, Thomas
2025-09-17 20:49 ` Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 06/22] perf jevents: Add tsx metric group for Intel models Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 07/22] perf jevents: Add br metric group for branch statistics on Intel Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 08/22] perf jevents: Add software prefetch (swpf) metric group for Intel Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 09/22] perf jevents: Add ports metric group giving utilization on Intel Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 10/22] perf jevents: Add L2 metrics for Intel Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 11/22] perf jevents: Add load store breakdown metrics ldst " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 12/22] perf jevents: Add ILP metrics " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` Ian Rogers [this message]
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 14/22] perf jevents: Add FPU " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 15/22] perf jevents: Add Miss Level Parallelism (MLP) metric " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 16/22] perf jevents: Add mem_bw " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 17/22] perf jevents: Add local/remote "mem" breakdown metrics " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 18/22] perf jevents: Add dir " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 19/22] perf jevents: Add C-State metrics from the PCU PMU " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 20/22] perf jevents: Add local/remote miss latency metrics " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 21/22] perf jevents: Add upi_bw metric " Ian Rogers
2025-09-04 4:46 ` [PATCH v6 22/22] perf jevents: Add mesh bandwidth saturation " Ian Rogers
2025-09-19 15:31 ` [PATCH v6 00/22] Python generated Intel metrics Falcon, Thomas
2025-09-20 12:54 ` Ian Rogers
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