perf stat: Improve runtime stat for interval mode
For interval mode, the metric is printed after the '#' character if it exists. But it's not calculated by the counts generated in this interval. See the following examples: root@kbl-ppc:~# perf stat -M CPI -I1000 --interval-count 2 # time counts unit events 1.000422803 764,809 inst_retired.any # 2.9 CPI 1.000422803 2,234,932 cycles 2.001464585 1,960,061 inst_retired.any # 1.6 CPI 2.001464585 4,022,591 cycles The second CPI should not be 1.6 (4,022,591/1,960,061 is 2.1) root@kbl-ppc:~# perf stat -e cycles,instructions -I1000 --interval-count 2 # time counts unit events 1.000429493 2,869,311 cycles 1.000429493 816,875 instructions # 0.28 insn per cycle 2.001516426 9,260,973 cycles 2.001516426 5,250,634 instructions # 0.87 insn per cycle The second 'insn per cycle' should not be 0.87 (5,250,634/9,260,973 is 0.57). The current code uses a global variable 'rt_stat' for tracking and updating the std dev of runtime stat. Unlike the counts, 'rt_stat' is not reset for interval. While the counts are reset for interval. perf_stat_process_counter() { if (config->interval) init_stats(ps->res_stats); } So for interval mode, the 'rt_stat' variable should be reset too. This patch resets 'rt_stat' before read_counters(), so the runtime stat is only calculated by the counts generated in this interval. With this patch: root@kbl-ppc:~# perf stat -M CPI -I1000 --interval-count 2 # time counts unit events 1.000420924 2,408,818 inst_retired.any # 2.1 CPI 1.000420924 5,010,111 cycles 2.001448579 2,798,407 inst_retired.any # 1.6 CPI 2.001448579 4,599,861 cycles root@kbl-ppc:~# perf stat -e cycles,instructions -I1000 --interval-count 2 # time counts unit events 1.000428555 2,769,714 cycles 1.000428555 774,462 instructions # 0.28 insn per cycle 2.001471562 3,595,904 cycles 2.001471562 1,243,703 instructions # 0.35 insn per cycle Now the second 'insn per cycle' and CPI are calculated by the counts generated in this interval. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Tested-By: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200420145417.6864-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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