linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf: Support a new coresum event qualifier

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Message-ID: <20190315133443.GA5200@krava>
Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:34:43 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        kan.liang@...el.com, yao.jin@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf: Support a new coresum event qualifier

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 12:04:13AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> The coresum event qualifier which sums up the event counts for both
> hardware threads in a core. For example,
> 
> perf stat -e cpu/event=0,umask=0x3,coresum=1/,cpu/event=0,umask=0x3/
> 
> In this example, we count the event 'ref-cycles' per-core and per-CPU in
> one perf stat command-line.
> 
> We can already support per-core counting with --per-core, but it's
> often useful to do this together with other metrics that are collected
> per CPU (per hardware thread). So this patch series supports this
> per-core counting on a event level.

seems useful, but perhaps we should follow the --per-core option
we already have and call it 'per-core' instead of coresum

jirka

> 
> Jin Yao (3):
>   perf: Add a coresum event qualifier
>   perf stat: Support coresum event qualifier
>   perf test: Add a simple test for term coresum
> 
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt |   4 ++
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c              |  21 +++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c        |  10 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                |   3 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c         |  27 +++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h         |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.l         |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/stat-display.c         | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  tools/perf/util/stat.c                 |   8 ++-
>  10 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>