Hello all, I was asked by a colleague of mine what the difference between task-clock and cpu-clock is. I found many similar questions on the web, but none have a final answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23965363/linux-perf-events-cpu-clock-and-task-clock-what-is-the-difference https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/3/373 Could someone explain the difference between the two counters for a non-kernel person? What is a task for that matter? When I compare the counters on test applications, they deviate only marginally. In general, is there hope for more documentation on the individual performance counters? Perf list shows what's available but has no information whatsoever about the actual meaning of the counters. It would be excellent to also explain how to interpret the counter, or in what case you'd want to look at a given event. Thanks -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-perf-users" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
