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Message-ID: <20091018112923.GQ4808@kryten> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:29:23 +1100 From: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> To: mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] perf stat: Add branch performance metric When we count both branches and branch-misses it is useful to print out the percentage of branch-misses: # perf stat -e branches -e branch-misses /bin/true Performance counter stats for '/bin/true': 401684 branches # 0.000 M/sec 23301 branch-misses # 5.801 % Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> --- diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 3db31e7..6a2e37e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct stats event_res_stats[MAX_COUNTERS][3]; struct stats runtime_nsecs_stats; struct stats walltime_nsecs_stats; struct stats runtime_cycles_stats; +struct stats runtime_branches_stats; #define MATCH_EVENT(t, c, counter) \ (attrs[counter].type == PERF_TYPE_##t && \ @@ -235,6 +237,8 @@ static void read_counter(int counter) update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats, count[0]); if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES, counter)) update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats, count[0]); + if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS, counter)) + update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats, count[0]); } static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv) @@ -352,6 +356,14 @@ static void abs_printout(int counter, double avg) ratio = avg / total; fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f IPC ", ratio); + } else if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES, counter)) { + total = avg_stats(&runtime_branches_stats); + + if (total) + ratio = avg * 100 / total; + + fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %% ", ratio); + } else { total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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