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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
	Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>,
	Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>, Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>, Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>,
	German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>,
	Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v6 15/15] perf c2c: Update documentation for new display option 'peer'
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:24:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220811062451.435810-16-leo.yan@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220811062451.435810-1-leo.yan@linaro.org>

Since the new display option 'peer' is introduced, this patch is to
update the documentation to reflect it.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
index 6f69173731aa..f1f7ae6b08d1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
@@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ REPORT OPTIONS
 
 -d::
 --display::
-	Switch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) to display and sort on. Total HITMs as default.
+	Switch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) or peer snooping type (peer) to display
+	and sort on. Total HITMs (tot) as default, except Arm64 uses peer mode
+	as default.
 
 --stitch-lbr::
 	Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
@@ -174,12 +176,18 @@ For each cacheline in the 1) list we display following data:
   Cacheline
   - cacheline address (hex number)
 
-  Rmt/Lcl Hitm
+  Rmt/Lcl Hitm (Display with HITM types)
   - cacheline percentage of all Remote/Local HITM accesses
 
-  LLC Load Hitm - Total, LclHitm, RmtHitm
+  Peer Snoop (Display with peer type)
+  - cacheline percentage of all peer accesses
+
+  LLC Load Hitm - Total, LclHitm, RmtHitm (For display with HITM types)
   - count of Total/Local/Remote load HITMs
 
+  Load Peer - Total, Local, Remote (For display with peer type)
+  - count of Total/Local/Remote load from peer cache or DRAM
+
   Total records
   - sum of all cachelines accesses
 
@@ -201,16 +209,21 @@ For each cacheline in the 1) list we display following data:
   - count of LLC load accesses, includes LLC hits and LLC HITMs
 
   RMT Load Hit - RmtHit, RmtHitm
-  - count of remote load accesses, includes remote hits and remote HITMs
+  - count of remote load accesses, includes remote hits and remote HITMs;
+    on Arm neoverse cores, RmtHit is used to account remote accesses,
+    includes remote DRAM or any upward cache level in remote node
 
   Load Dram - Lcl, Rmt
   - count of local and remote DRAM accesses
 
 For each offset in the 2) list we display following data:
 
-  HITM - Rmt, Lcl
+  HITM - Rmt, Lcl (Display with HITM types)
   - % of Remote/Local HITM accesses for given offset within cacheline
 
+  Peer Snoop - Rmt, Lcl (Display with peer type)
+  - % of Remote/Local peer accesses for given offset within cacheline
+
   Store Refs - L1 Hit, L1 Miss, N/A
   - % of store accesses that hit L1, missed L1 and N/A (no available) memory
     level for given offset within cacheline
@@ -227,9 +240,12 @@ For each offset in the 2) list we display following data:
   Code address
   - code address responsible for the accesses
 
-  cycles - rmt hitm, lcl hitm, load
+  cycles - rmt hitm, lcl hitm, load (Display with HITM types)
     - sum of cycles for given accesses - Remote/Local HITM and generic load
 
+  cycles - rmt peer, lcl peer, load (Display with peer type)
+    - sum of cycles for given accesses - Remote/Local peer load and generic load
+
   cpu cnt
     - number of cpus that participated on the access
 
@@ -251,7 +267,8 @@ The 'Node' field displays nodes that accesses given cacheline
 offset. Its output comes in 3 flavors:
   - node IDs separated by ','
   - node IDs with stats for each ID, in following format:
-      Node{cpus %hitms %stores}
+      Node{cpus %hitms %stores} (Display with HITM types)
+      Node{cpus %peers %stores} (Display with peer type)
   - node IDs with list of affected CPUs in following format:
       Node{cpu list}
 
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-11  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-11  6:24 [PATCH v6 00/15] perf c2c: Support data source and display for Arm64 Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 01/15] perf tools: sync addition of PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER Leo Yan
2022-08-11 21:55   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 02/15] perf mem: Print snoop peer flag Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 03/15] perf arm-spe: Use SPE data source for neoverse cores Leo Yan
2022-08-11 22:01   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 04/15] perf mem: Add statistics for peer snooping Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 05/15] perf c2c: Output " Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 06/15] perf c2c: Add dimensions for peer load operations Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 07/15] perf c2c: Add dimensions of peer metrics for cache line view Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 08/15] perf c2c: Add mean dimensions for peer operations Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 09/15] perf c2c: Use explicit names for display macros Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 10/15] perf c2c: Rename dimension from 'percent_hitm' to 'percent_costly_snoop' Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 11/15] perf c2c: Refactor node header Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 12/15] perf c2c: Refactor display string Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 13/15] perf c2c: Sort on peer snooping for load operations Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` [PATCH v6 14/15] perf c2c: Use 'peer' as default display for Arm64 Leo Yan
2022-08-11  6:24 ` Leo Yan [this message]
2022-08-11 22:25 ` [PATCH v6 00/15] perf c2c: Support data source and " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-08-12  1:26   ` Leo Yan

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