This patch kit adds perf script support for computing metrics for
sampled groups. This allows much more fine grained metrics
measurement than perf stat allows, because the metrics
can be at PMI granularity instead of a slow timer.
Also the kernel does the sampling in this case which has
much less overhead than perf stat regularly querying
counters.
This allows things like fine grained IPC or TopDown tracking.
Note that the metric is still averaged over the sampling period,
it is not just for the sampling point.
For example to sample IPC:
$ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles,instructions}:S' -a sleep 1
$ perf script -F metric,ip,sym,time,cpu,comm
...
alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: 7fd65937d6cc [unknown]
alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: 7fd65937d6cc [unknown]
alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: 7fd65937d6cc [unknown]
alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: metric: 0.13 insn per cycle
swapper [000] 42815.857961: ffffffff81655df0 __schedule
swapper [000] 42815.857961: ffffffff81655df0 __schedule
:1
swapper [000] 42815.857961: ffffffff81655df0 __schedule
swapper [000] 42815.857961: metric: 0.23 insn per cycle
qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: ffffffff8165ad0e
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: ffffffff8165ad0e
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: ffffffff8165ad0e
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: metric: 0.46 insn per cycle
:4972 [000] 42815.858312: ffffffffa080e5f2 vmx_vcpu_run
:4972 [000] 42815.858312: ffffffffa080e5f2 vmx_vcpu_run
:4972 [000] 42815.858312: ffffffffa080e5f2 vmx_vcpu_run
:4972 [000] 42815.858312: metric: 0.45 insn per cycle
TopDown:
Note TopDown requires disabling SMT if you have it enabled (e.g. by offlining
the extra CPUs), because SMT would require sampling per core, which is not
supported.
$ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,topdown-fetch-bubbles,topdown-recovery-bubbles,\
topdown-slots-retired,topdown-total-slots,topdown-slots-issued}:S' -a sleep 1
$ perf script --header -I -F cpu,ip,sym,event,metric,period
...
[000] 121108 ref-cycles: ffffffff8165222e
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
[000] 190350 topdown-fetch-bubbles: ffffffff8165222e
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
[000] 2055 topdown-recovery-bubbles: ffffffff8165222e
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
[000] 148729 topdown-slots-retired: ffffffff8165222e
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
[000] 144324 topdown-total-slots: ffffffff8165222e
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
[000] 160852 topdown-slots-issued: ffffffff8165222e
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
[000] metric: 33.0% frontend bound
[000] metric: 3.5% bad speculation
[000] metric: 25.8% retiring
[000] metric: 37.7% backend bound
[000] 112112 ref-cycles: ffffffff8165aec8
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[000] 357222 topdown-fetch-bubbles: ffffffff8165aec8
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[000] 3325 topdown-recovery-bubbles: ffffffff8165aec8
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[000] 323553 topdown-slots-retired: ffffffff8165aec8
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[000] 270507 topdown-total-slots: ffffffff8165aec8
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[000] 341226 topdown-slots-issued: ffffffff8165aec8
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[000] metric: 33.0% frontend bound
[000] metric: 2.9% bad speculation
[000] metric: 29.9% retiring
[000] metric: 34.2% backend bound
Git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/limux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc.git
perf/script-metric-3
v1: Initial post
v2:
Remove already merged patches.
Use evsel->priv for new fields
Port to new base line, support fp output.
Handle stats in ->stats, not ->priv
Minor cleanups
v3:
Enable EVENT_UPDATE in perf record, and record unit/scale/cpu map/thread map
Drop the previous zero cpu map hack.
