Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Pass PERF_STAT_RUN environment variable for each run

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-07-17T13:09:51Z

Em Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:31:14PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:21:06PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > >> When perf stat runs multiple times via -r option, it's sometimes
> > >> useful for a workload to know which run it executing. So pass new
> > >> PERF_STAT_RUN environment variable to the workload for each run
> > >> (starting from 1).

> > > This seems counter intuitive, runs should be _identical_ otherwise
> > > there's no point. That means the workload should very much _not_ know
> > > these things.

> > But I think it can be useful if a workload wants to save logfiles
> > based on the iteration number for example. If it doesn't want, it can
> > just ignore. :)

> That's the wrong way around. Also, there's --pre and --post hooks to
> preserve logfiles if you really have to do that kind of thing.

Agreed, one can script this using --pre or --post if needed.

- Arnaldo