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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: 'perf stat --repeat N' oddity/regression
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:22:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160125182206.GA11648@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113104254.GA9854@gmail.com>


So I just noticed this 'perf stat --repeat' oddity:

triton:~/tip> perf stat --repeat 3 -a -e instructions taskset 1 perf bench sched pipe -l 1000000
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes

     Total time: 2.068 [sec]

       2.068208 usecs/op
         483510 ops/sec
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes

     Total time: 2.097 [sec]

       2.097126 usecs/op
         476843 ops/sec
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes

     Total time: 2.091 [sec]

       2.091716 usecs/op
         478076 ops/sec

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (3 runs):

    12,690,156,407      instructions                                                

       2.087612423 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.43% )

the stddev printout of 'instructions' is gone! This defeats the main purpose of 
--repeat.

The 'elapsed' time +- stddev/noise display (which is still present) is only part 
of the story.

I'm pretty sure we had the printout for all the measured fields a couple of months 
ago - does any of you know what happened to it?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-20 16:31 [PATCH] perf tools: Do not show trace command if it's not compiled in Jiri Olsa
2016-01-12 11:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-12 14:29   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-13 10:42     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-25 18:22       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-01-25 18:35         ` 'perf stat --repeat N' oddity/regression Ingo Molnar
2016-01-25 19:43           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-25 19:48             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-26  8:08               ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-26 14:18                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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