From dd86e72abdbc4b436471af5a97927c6145f5298c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:33:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf stat: Count branches first Count branches first, cache-misses second. The reason is that on x86 branches are not counted by all counters on all CPUs. Before: Performance counter stats for 'ls': 0.756653 task-clock-msecs # 0.802 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 250 page-faults # 0.330 M/sec 2375725 cycles # 3139.781 M/sec 1628129 instructions # 0.685 IPC 19643 cache-references # 25.960 M/sec 4608 cache-misses # 6.090 M/sec 342532 branches # 452.694 M/sec branch-misses 0.000943356 seconds time elapsed After: Performance counter stats for 'ls': 1.056734 task-clock-msecs # 0.859 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 259 page-faults # 0.245 M/sec 3345932 cycles # 3166.295 M/sec 3074090 instructions # 0.919 IPC 616928 branches # 583.806 M/sec 39279 branch-misses # 6.367 % 21312 cache-references # 20.168 M/sec 3661 cache-misses # 3.464 M/sec 0.001230551 seconds time elapsed (also prettify the printout of branch misses, in case it's getting scaled.) Cc: Tim Blechmann Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index c373683..95a55ea 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = { { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES}, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS}, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, }; --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 95a55ea..90e0a26 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -50,17 +50,17 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = { - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES}, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS }, - - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES}, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS}, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS }, + + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, }; --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 90e0a268343d..c6df3770b87e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = { { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES }, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS }, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, }; @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static void abs_printout(int counter, double avg) if (total) ratio = avg * 100 / total; - fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %% ", ratio); + fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %% ", ratio); } else { total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats);