From: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>,
John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
"Paul A. Clarke" <pc@us.ibm.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:02:04 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.20.2006291344440.4075@Diego> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200626215759.GG818054@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The name could be a metric or an event, the logic for each is quite
>
> I would say collisions are unlikely. Event names follow quite structured
> patterns.
But across various architectures? I guess event names can be arbitrary.
In perftool-testsuite, I use the following regexp to match event names:
[\w\-\:\/_=,]+
>
> > different. You could look up an event and when it fails assume it was
> > a metric, but I like the simplicity of this approach.
>
> I don't think it's simpler for the user.
>
I think it should be clear at the user level whether they're using an event
or a metric (basically a couple of events together). I don't hiding too
much of details from users is any good.
> > Maybe this
> > change could be adopted more widely with something like "perf stat -e
> > metric:IPC -a -I 1000" rather than the current "perf stat -M IPC -a -I
> > 1000".
>
> I thought about just adding metrics to -e, without metric: of course.
>
> -Andi
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-29 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-26 19:47 [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 01/10] perf tools: Rename expr__add_id to expr__add_val Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 20:01 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:49 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-29 15:48 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 02/10] perf tools: Add struct expr_parse_data to keep expr value Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 20:04 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:24 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-29 15:49 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 03/10] perf tools: Add expr__add_id function Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 20:07 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:38 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 04/10] perf tools: Change expr__get_id to return struct expr_parse_data Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 20:25 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 05/10] perf tools: Add expr__del_id function Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 20:55 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:52 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 06/10] perf tools: Collect other metrics in struct egroup Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:06 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 22:04 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:48 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 22:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-29 15:54 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 07/10] perf tools: Collect other metrics in struct metric_expr Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:10 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:55 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-29 15:55 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 08/10] perf tools: Add other metrics to hash data Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:16 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 09/10] perf tools: Compute other metrics Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:24 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 21:59 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-29 16:35 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-29 19:23 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 19:47 ` [PATCH 10/10] perf tests: Add cache_miss_cycles to metric parse test Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:40 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 22:00 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 21:25 ` [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric Andi Kleen
2020-06-26 21:44 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-26 21:57 ` Andi Kleen
2020-06-27 12:48 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-06-27 23:25 ` Ian Rogers
2020-06-28 22:17 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-29 12:02 ` Michael Petlan [this message]
2020-06-27 12:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-06-27 8:13 ` John Garry
2020-06-29 21:33 ` Andi Kleen
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