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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@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: Re: 'perf stat --repeat N' oddity/regression
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:43:33 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160125194333.GA22501@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160125183511.GA24981@gmail.com>

Em Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 07:35:11PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> 
> So it appears it broke somewhere between v4.0 and v4.1, as the v4.0 install 
> displays:
> 
>     16,244,802,268      instructions               ( +- 23.01% )
> 
>        2.108676769 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.86% )
> 
> 
> [a few minutes later]
> 
> Bisected it down to:

Mel Gorman reported this and Jiri provided a patch that Mel tested and
verified that it fixed, checking where it is sitting now...

- Arnaldo
 
>  106a94a0f8c207ef4113ce7e32f34a00b3b174e7 is the first bad commit
>  commit 106a94a0f8c207ef4113ce7e32f34a00b3b174e7
>  Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
>  Date:   Fri Jun 26 11:29:19 2015 +0200
> 
>      perf stat: Introduce read_counters function
> 
> So this look like to be a regression.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 19:43 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       ` 'perf stat --repeat N' oddity/regression Ingo Molnar
2016-01-25 18:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-25 19:43           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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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