From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BE1C433F5 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2021 18:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A50E6109F for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2021 18:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233140AbhJGSro (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:47:44 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:42604 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229778AbhJGSro (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2021 14:47:44 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id 197Ihdq8011954; Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:43:39 -0500 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id 197IhbO3011953; Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:43:37 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: gate.crashing.org: segher set sender to segher@kernel.crashing.org using -f Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:43:37 -0500 From: Segher Boessenkool To: "Paul A. Clarke" Cc: Kajol Jain , maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rnsastry@linux.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jolsa@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events power10: Add metric events json file for power10 platform Message-ID: <20211007184337.GN10333@gate.crashing.org> References: <20211006073119.276340-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com> <20211006173248.GA7389@li-24c3614c-2adc-11b2-a85c-85f334518bdb.ibm.com> <20211007134750.GA243632@li-24c3614c-2adc-11b2-a85c-85f334518bdb.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20211007134750.GA243632@li-24c3614c-2adc-11b2-a85c-85f334518bdb.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 08:47:50AM -0500, Paul A. Clarke wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 12:32:48PM -0500, Paul A. Clarke wrote: > > > + { > > > + "BriefDescription": "Average cycles per instruction when the instruction finishes at dispatch", > > > > I'm not sure what that means. > > After doing a bit of research, I think it might be a bit more clear as: > "Average cycles per instruction when the NTF instruction finishes at dispatch" Is "next to finish" some defined and/or sensible term in this context? Or do you mean NTC here? Or what :-) Instructions do not finish in order at all generally. Segher