Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] perf report/annotate: Support average IPC and IPC coverage for function

["Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>]

On 11/29/2018 7:33 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:39:34PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>> Add supporting of displaying the average IPC and IPC coverage
>> percentage per function.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> $ perf record -b ...
>> $ perf report -s symbol or
>>    perf report -s symbol --stdio
>>
>> Overhead  Symbol                           IPC   [IPC Coverage]
>>    39.60%  [.] __random                     2.30  [ 54.8%]
>>    18.02%  [.] main                         0.43  [ 54.3%]
>>    14.21%  [.] compute_flag                 2.29  [100.0%]
>>    14.16%  [.] rand                         0.36  [100.0%]
>>     7.06%  [.] __random_r                   2.57  [ 70.5%]
>>     6.85%  [.] rand@plt                     0.00  [  0.0%]
>>    ...
>>
>> $ perf annotate --stdio2
>>
>> Percent  IPC Cycle (Average IPC: 2.30, IPC Coverage: 54.8%)
>>
>>                          Disassembly of section .text:
>>
>>                          000000000003aac0 <random@@GLIBC_2.2.5>:
>>    8.32  3.28              sub    $0x18,%rsp
>>          3.28              mov    $0x1,%esi
>>          3.28              xor    %eax,%eax
>>          3.28              cmpl   $0x0,argp_program_version_hook@@GLIBC_2.2.5+0x1e0
>>   11.57  3.28     1      ↓ je     20
>>                            lock   cmpxchg %esi,__abort_msg@@GLIBC_PRIVATE+0x8a0
>>                          ↓ jne    29
>>                          ↓ jmp    43
>>   11.57  1.10        20:   cmpxchg %esi,__abort_msg@@GLIBC_PRIVATE+0x8a0
>>   ...
>>
>> v4:
>> ---
>>      Add a new patch "perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage"
>>      to explain the new columns "IPC" and "IPC Coverage".
>>
>>      Other patches are not changed.
>>
>> v3:
>> ---
>>      Remove the sortkey "ipc" from command-line. The columns "IPC"
>>      and "[IPC Coverage]" are automatically enabled when "symbol"
>>      is specified.
>>
>>      Patch "perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol"
>>      is impacted.
>>
>> v2:
>> ---
>>    1. Merge in Jiri's patch to support stdio mode
>>
>>    2. Add a new patch "perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag
>>       in struct symbol" which records if the symbol has been
>>       annotated yet.
>>
>>    3. Minor update such as adding { } for multiline code in 'if'
>>       condition.
>>
>> Jin Yao (4):
>>    perf annotate: Compute average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol
>>    perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag in struct symbol
>>    perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol
>>    perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> 
> thanks,
> jirka
> 

Thanks so much for reviewing the patches.

I will post v5 which includes some minor updates for documentation.

Thanks
Jin Yao