linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix an error on perf-bench document

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:59:34 +0900
From:	Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@...il.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix an error on perf-bench document

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
> Hi, Ingo
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:05:01 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> There's several typos all across the perf bench documentation:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>>        This perf bench command is general framework for benchmark suites.
>>
>> s/is general/is a general
>>
>
> Will fix.
>
>
>> 2)
>>
>> The output of 'perf bench --help' outputs weird looking
>> formatting characters like:
>>
>>            .ft C
>>            % perf bench sched pipe                      # with no style specified
>>            (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)
>>                    Total time:5.855 sec
>>                            5.855061 usecs/op
>>                            170792 ops/sec
>>            .ft
>>
>
> I have no idea on this, maybe a problem of asciidoc?
>
>
>> 3)
>>
>> This:
>>
>>            all: test all suite (pseudo suite)
>>
>> s/all suite (psudo suite)/all benchmark suites
>>
>> (this should be fixed for perf bench mem as well.)
>>
>
> Will fix.
>
>
>> 4)
>>
>> perf bench mem memcpy -h outputs:
>>
>>     -l, --length <1MB>    Specify length of memory to copy. available unit: B, MB, GB (upper and lower)
>>
>> bad capitalization: s/. a/. A
>>
>> s/unit/units
>>
>
> Will fix too.
>
>
>> 5)
>>
>> This:
>>
>>     -c, --clock           Use CPU clock for measuring
>>
>> should probably clarify why the CPU clock matters and what
>> measurement is done otherwise.
>>
>
> This looks a bit weird. If -c switch was given, it'd use the cycles
> event not the cpu-clock event. If omitted, it'd use the gtod().
>

Very sorry, I misused the terms clock and cycles. The memset uses
hardware cycles event, the above naming and description with "clock"
is very bad...
I will write and send a patch for fix the problem.

-- 
Hitoshi Mitake
h.mitake@...il.com
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