From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] perf-stat: fix +- nan% in --no-aggr runs
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 17:14:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315437244-3788-3-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315437244-3788-1-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com>
without this patch, running:
$ sudo ./perf stat -r20 --no-aggr -a perl -e '$i++ for 1..100000'
I get computations like this:
CPU0 12.488247 task-clock # 1.224 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
CPU1 12.488909 task-clock # 1.225 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
CPU2 12.500221 task-clock # 1.226 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
CPU3 12.481713 task-clock # 1.224 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
but with patch, I get:
CPU0 8.233682 task-clock # 0.754 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
CPU1 8.226318 task-clock # 0.754 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
CPU2 8.210737 task-clock # 0.752 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
CPU3 8.201691 task-clock # 0.751 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
Note that without --no-aggr, I get non-0 statistics both before and after patch:
231.986022 task-clock # 4.030 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.97% )
212 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 12.07% )
9 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 25.80% )
466 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 3.23% )
174,318,593 cycles # 0.751 GHz ( +- 1.06% )
I couldnt see anything wrong in the caller, so fixed it in
stddev_stats(). ISTM that 0.00 is better than nan, since perf stat
was passed -A (--no-aggr) so no standard deviation should be expected,
and nan is suggestive of a deeper error.
When running with --no-aggr, perhaps we should suppress the statistics
printing entirely, or do so when they are 0.00.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 5e3206e..c6e47d2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -254,8 +254,13 @@ static double avg_stats(struct stats *stats)
*/
static double stddev_stats(struct stats *stats)
{
- double variance = stats->M2 / (stats->n - 1);
- double variance_mean = variance / stats->n;
+ double variance, variance_mean;
+
+ if (!stats->n)
+ return 0.0;
+
+ variance = stats->M2 / (stats->n - 1);
+ variance_mean = variance / stats->n;
return sqrt(variance_mean);
}
--
1.7.4.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-21 8:56 [PATCH 0/2] perf stat: add -l <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere Jim Cromie
2011-05-21 8:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Jim Cromie
2011-05-21 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-21 20:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-01 21:58 ` Jim Cromie
2011-09-02 14:35 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-02 18:02 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-02 18:04 ` Jim Cromie
2011-09-02 18:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-07 23:13 ` [patch 0/5] perf stat --log-fd=N Jim Cromie
2011-09-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] perf stat: add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere Jim Cromie
2011-09-07 23:14 ` Jim Cromie [this message]
2011-09-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] perf stat: suppress printing std-dev when its 0 Jim Cromie
2011-09-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] perf stat: allow tab as cvs delimiter Jim Cromie
2011-09-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] perf stat: fix spelling in comment Jim Cromie
2011-05-21 8:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] dont commify big numbers by default, let -B do it Jim Cromie
2011-05-21 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 22:05 ` Jim Cromie
2011-05-24 22:11 ` [PATCH] add --simple output mode to perf-stat, based upon csv-output Jim Cromie
2011-05-25 12:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] dont commify big numbers by default, let -B do it Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 19:41 ` Jim Cromie
2011-05-26 19:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf-stat: refactor print/formatting into print-ops Jim Cromie
2011-05-26 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf-stat: refactor print/formatting into print-ops for pretty, csv Jim Cromie
2011-05-26 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf-stat: fix +- nan% in -Aa runs Jim Cromie
2011-05-26 19:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf-stat: clean up <no count> handling, CPUx prefixing Jim Cromie
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