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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2021-11-23 17:52:26 -0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-12-07 22:18:24 -0300
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perf metric: Reduce multiplexing with duration_time
It is common to use the same counters with and without duration_time. The ID sharing code treats duration_time as if it were a hardware event placed in the same group. This causes unnecessary multiplexing such as in the following example where l3_cache_access isn't shared: $ perf stat -M l3 -a sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 3,117,007 l3_cache_miss # 199.5 MB/s l3_rd_bw # 43.6 % l3_hits # 56.4 % l3_miss (50.00%) 5,526,447 l3_cache_access (50.00%) 5,392,435 l3_cache_access # 5389191.2 access/s l3_access_rate (50.00%) 1,000,601,901 ns duration_time 1.000601901 seconds time elapsed Fix this by placing duration_time in all groups unless metric sharing has been disabled on the command line: $ perf stat -M l3 -a sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 3,597,972 l3_cache_miss # 230.3 MB/s l3_rd_bw # 48.0 % l3_hits # 52.0 % l3_miss 6,914,459 l3_cache_access # 6909935.9 access/s l3_access_rate 1,000,654,579 ns duration_time 1.000654579 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat --metric-no-merge -M l3 -a sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 3,501,834 l3_cache_miss # 53.5 % l3_miss (24.99%) 6,548,173 l3_cache_access (24.99%) 3,417,622 l3_cache_miss # 45.7 % l3_hits (25.04%) 6,294,062 l3_cache_access (25.04%) 5,923,238 l3_cache_access # 5919688.1 access/s l3_access_rate (24.99%) 1,000,599,683 ns duration_time 3,607,486 l3_cache_miss # 230.9 MB/s l3_rd_bw (49.97%) 1.000599683 seconds time elapsed v2. Doesn't count duration_time in the metric_list_cmp function that sorts larger metrics first. Without this a metric with duration_time and an event is sorted the same as a metric with two events, possibly not allowing the first metric to share with the second. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211124015226.3317994-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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