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Commit dd86e72a authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar
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perf stat: Count branches first



Count branches first, cache-misses second. The reason is that
on x86 branches are not counted by all counters on all CPUs.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

       0.756653  task-clock-msecs         #      0.802 CPUs
              0  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
              0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
            250  page-faults              #      0.330 M/sec
        2375725  cycles                   #   3139.781 M/sec
        1628129  instructions             #      0.685 IPC
          19643  cache-references         #     25.960 M/sec
           4608  cache-misses             #      6.090 M/sec
         342532  branches                 #    452.694 M/sec
  <not counted>  branch-misses

    0.000943356  seconds time elapsed

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

       1.056734  task-clock-msecs         #      0.859 CPUs
              0  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
              0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
            259  page-faults              #      0.245 M/sec
        3345932  cycles                   #   3166.295 M/sec
        3074090  instructions             #      0.919 IPC
         616928  branches                 #    583.806 M/sec
          39279  branch-misses            #      6.367 %
          21312  cache-references         #     20.168 M/sec
           3661  cache-misses             #      3.464 M/sec

    0.001230551  seconds time elapsed

(also prettify the printout of branch misses, in case it's
 getting scaled.)

Cc: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index c373683..95a55ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS	},
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES},
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES	},

 };
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 95a55ea..90e0a26 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -50,17 +50,17 @@

 static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {

-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS	},
-
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS		},
+
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES		},

 };
parent 56aab464
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