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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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Subject: Re: perf: documentation for cycles_no_execute event
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:58:42AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Hello,

hi,
adding Andi in cc, he should be able to answer this

thanks,
jirka

> 
> Many of the x86 pipeline.json files have the brief description "Total
> execution stalls" for both CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_NO_EXECUTE and
> CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_TOTAL.  Should the case for
> CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_NO_EXECUTE have a brief description that mentions
> cycles?  Some of the files do have a public description that mentions
> cycles, eg broadwellde/pipeline.json has "Counts number of cycles nothing
> is executed on any execution port.", but others (eg ivytown/pipeline.json)
> just have "Total execution stalls." twice.  Maybe "Cycles where nothing is
> executed" would be ok for CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_NO_EXECUTE?
> 
> thanks,
> julia