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Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro --- tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt index ebf12a8c5db5..1c7b309fe6e8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt @@ -66,3 +66,4 @@ For latency profiling, try: perf record/report --latency For parallelism histogram, try: perf report --hierarchy --sort latency,parallelism,comm,symbol To analyze particular parallelism levels, try: perf report --latency --parallelism=32-64 To see how parallelism changes over time, try: perf report -F time,latency,parallelism --time-quantum=1s +When merging events like cycles, different core frequencies and instructions per cycle mean the counts may not fairly reflect time spent in a function. -- 2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog