Re: [PATCH v1 13/20] perf jevents: Add cycles breakdown metric for Intel

Ian Rogers
2024-03-01T00:48:29Z

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 1:30 PM Liang, Kan <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> On 2024-02-28 7:17 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Breakdown cycles to user, kernel and guest.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
> > index dae44d296861..fef40969a4b8 100755
> > --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
> > +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
> > @@ -26,6 +26,23 @@ core_cycles = Event("CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD_P_ANY",
> > smt_cycles = Select(core_cycles / 2, Literal("#smt_on"), core_cycles)
> >
> >
> > +def Cycles() -> MetricGroup:
> > + cyc_k = Event("cycles:kHh")
> > + cyc_g = Event("cycles:G")
> > + cyc_u = Event("cycles:uH")
> > + cyc = cyc_k + cyc_g + cyc_u
> > +
> > + return MetricGroup("cycles", [
> > + Metric("cycles_total", "Total number of cycles", cyc, "cycles"),
> > + Metric("cycles_user", "User cycles as a percentage of all cycles",
> > + d_ratio(cyc_u, cyc), "100%"),
> > + Metric("cycles_kernel", "Kernel cycles as a percentage of all cycles",
> > + d_ratio(cyc_k, cyc), "100%"),
> > + Metric("cycles_guest", "Hypervisor guest cycles as a percentage of all cycles",
> > + d_ratio(cyc_g, cyc), "100%"),
> > + ], description = "cycles breakdown per privilege level (users, kernel, guest)")
> > +
> > +
> > def Idle() -> Metric:
> > cyc = Event("msr/mperf/")
> > tsc = Event("msr/tsc/")
> > @@ -770,6 +787,7 @@ def IntelLdSt() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
> >
> >
> > all_metrics = MetricGroup("", [
> > + Cycles(),
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> The metric group seem exactly the same on AMD and ARM. Maybe we can have
> tools/perf/pmu-events/common_metrics.py for all the common metrics.

Agreed. I think we can drop cycles in the three sets and then once
then do the common_metrics.py as a follow up.

Thanks,
Ian

> Thanks,
> Kan
>
> > Idle(),
> > Rapl(),
> > Smi(),