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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kan.liang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] perf report: Caculate and return the branch counting in callchain
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:20:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020182036.GC1075@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACbG3095a0Y84O_JPB3HKVyKTBTwdg660o8bSs7JgcDmj=XDSQ@mail.gmail.com>

> OK, I am more confused now.  Are you predicting some quantity related
> to transactions?  Why would you divide abort count by branch count?
> Further, I just looked at patch 6/6.  It has the following text:
> 
> + Also show with some branch flags that can be:
> + - Predicted: display the average percentage of predicated branches.
> +     (predicated number / total number)
> + - Abort: display the average percentage of abort branches.
> + (abort number /total number)
> + - Cycles: cycles in basic block.
> 
> 
> I think there is inconsistency between what you are suggesting and
> what the patch has.

An abort is an unique branch. But yes there is no total number,
so the formula will always be 100%. So yes would probably be 
better to just display a count for abort.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 22:01 [PATCH v2 0/6] perf report: Show branch flags/cycles in --branch-history callgraph view Jin Yao
2016-10-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] perf report: Add branch flag to callchain cursor node Jin Yao
2016-10-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] perf report: Caculate and return the branch counting in callchain Jin Yao
2016-10-20 16:41   ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-20 16:48     ` Andi Kleen
2016-10-20 17:06       ` Nilay Vaish
2016-10-20 18:20         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-10-21  0:23           ` Jin, Yao
2016-10-25 18:11             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-10-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] perf report: Create a symbol_conf flag for showing branch flag counting Jin Yao
2016-10-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] perf report: Show branch info in callchain entry for stdio mode Jin Yao
2016-10-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] perf report: Show branch info in callchain entry for browser mode Jin Yao
2016-10-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] perf report: Display columns Predicted/Abort/Cycles in --branch-history Jin Yao
2016-10-23 14:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] perf report: Show branch flags/cycles in --branch-history callgraph view Jiri Olsa

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