Re: [PATCH 2/6] tools/perf/json: Add cache metrics for s390 z16

[Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 1:20 AM Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/13/23 19:33, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 08:22:44AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:30 AM Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Add metrics for s390 z16
> >>> - Percentage sourced from Level 2 cache
> >>> - Percentage sourced from Level 3 on same chip cache
> >>> - Percentage sourced from Level 4 Local cache on same book
> >>> - Percentage sourced from Level 4 Remote cache on different book
> >>> - Percentage sourced from memory
> >>>
> >>> For details about the formulas see this documentation:
> >>> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/CPU%20MF%20Formulas%20including%20z16%20-%20May%202022_1.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Outpuf after:
> >>>  # ./perf stat -M l4rp -- dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=10M count=10K
> >>>  .... dd output deleted
> >>>
> >>>  Performance counter stats for 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=10M count=10K':
> >>>
> >>>                  0      IDCW_OFF_DRAWER_CHIP_HIT         #     0.00 l4rp
> >>>            431,866      L1I_DIR_WRITES
> >>>              2,395      IDCW_OFF_DRAWER_IV
> >>>                  0      ICW_OFF_DRAWER
> >>>                  0      IDCW_OFF_DRAWER_DRAWER_HIT
> >>>              1,437      DCW_OFF_DRAWER
> >>>        425,960,793      L1D_DIR_WRITES
> >>>
> >>>       12.165030699 seconds time elapsed
> >>>
> >>>        0.001037000 seconds user
> >>>       12.162140000 seconds sys
> >>>
> >>>  #
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
> >>> Acked-By: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> >
> > Thanks, applied the first two patches, please address the review
> > suggestions for patches 3-6 and resubmit only those.
> >
> > The patches will be in the public perf-tools-next branch later today.
> >
> > - Arnaldo
> >
>
> I would really prefer the current implementation without using "ScaleUnit": "100%"
> The reason is that these formulars are given to me from the s390 Performance team.
> They want to use the exact same formulars on all platforms running on s390
> which includes z/OS and z/VM. This way they are sure to get the same numbers.
>
> Hope this background info helps.

For the series:
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

Using ScaleUnit won't change the result. A ScaleUnit of "100%" means
scale the result up by multiplying by 100 and then apply the % after
the value. Another nit is having metrics that place their units in the
name, like _percent, is usually a sign the name can be better. Perhaps
we can follow up with some clean up.

Thanks,
Ian

> Thanks a lot.
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