From: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf stat: Add computation of TopDown formulas
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 06:56:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACbG3083eGXCiUFY_n8+N6s9RMZYbq=p4i617-JViaUHcJ1pSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601145648.GP22049@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Andi, I am talking about the if statement. I don't know why it would
happen that nothing got measured. I am guessing you saw it happen.
May be we can add a comment in the patch that it is possible that all
counter values are zero and therefore we need that if statement.
--
Nilay
On 1 June 2016 at 09:56, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 09:50:07AM -0500, Nilay Vaish wrote:
>> On 24 May 2016 at 14:52, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> > +static double td_be_bound(int ctx, int cpu)
>> > +{
>> > + double sum = (td_fe_bound(ctx, cpu) +
>> > + td_bad_spec(ctx, cpu) +
>> > + td_retiring(ctx, cpu));
>> > + if (sum == 0)
>> > + return 0;
>> > + return sanitize_val(1.0 - sum);
>> > +}
>> > +
>>
>> Can you explain why we need the check on sum?
>
> You mean the if statement?
>
> Otherwise if nothing was measured it would always report everything backend bound,
> which wouldn't be correct.
>
> -Andi
>
> --
> ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-02 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-24 19:52 [PATCH 1/4] perf stat: Basic support for TopDown in perf stat Andi Kleen
2016-05-24 19:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf stat: Add computation of TopDown formulas Andi Kleen
2016-06-01 14:50 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-06-01 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
2016-06-02 11:56 ` Nilay Vaish [this message]
2016-06-02 14:26 ` Andi Kleen
2016-06-08 8:39 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2016-05-24 19:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf stat: Print topology/time headers with --metric-only Andi Kleen
2016-06-08 8:39 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2016-05-24 19:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf stat: Add missing aggregation headers for --metric-only CSV Andi Kleen
2016-06-08 8:40 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2016-05-30 16:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf stat: Basic support for TopDown in perf stat Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-05-30 16:04 ` Andi Kleen
2016-05-30 16:19 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-06-06 14:00 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-06-06 14:11 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-06-06 14:36 ` Andi Kleen
2016-06-01 14:24 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-06-01 14:31 ` Andi Kleen
2016-06-01 15:24 ` Andi Kleen
2016-06-02 11:52 ` Nilay Vaish
2016-06-08 8:38 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
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