From: Christian Melendez <chrismelnu@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: perf stat: worth documenting task-clock/cpu-clock in perf-stat.txt?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:55:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922215548.398541-1-chrismelnu@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello Arnaldo,
I'm learning performance engineering and ran into this while playing
around with perf stat. perf-stat.txt's TIMINGS section explains "time
elapsed" and "user"/"sys", but I couldn't find task-clock itself
documented anywhere, even though it appears in the first command
example, as the very first metric shown.
This apparently came up unanswered on this list before, in 2013 and
2015 (2015: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-perf-users/msg02405.html),
where users asked about cpu-clock too, without anything ever being
added to the docs. Would it be worth documenting task-clock/cpu-clock
there? Happy to send a patch if so.
Best regards,
Christian
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 21:55 Christian Melendez [this message]
2026-09-23 7:41 ` Ian Rogers
2026-09-23 13:51 ` [PATCH] perf stat: document task-clock/cpu-clock in TIMINGS Christian Melendez
2026-09-23 15:14 ` Ian Rogers
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