perf stat: Add branch performance metric
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:29:23 +0000 (22:29 +1100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:20:21 +0000 (09:20 +0200)
When we count both branches and branch-misses it is useful to
print out the percentage of branch-misses:

 # perf stat -e branches -e branch-misses /bin/true

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

         401684  branches                 #      0.000 M/sec
          23301  branch-misses            #      5.801 %

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <20091018112923.GQ4808@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

index 3db31e7..c373683 100644 (file)
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct stats                        event_res_stats[MAX_COUNTERS][3];
 struct stats                   runtime_nsecs_stats;
 struct stats                   walltime_nsecs_stats;
 struct stats                   runtime_cycles_stats;
+struct stats                   runtime_branches_stats;
 
 #define MATCH_EVENT(t, c, counter)                     \
        (attrs[counter].type == PERF_TYPE_##t &&        \
@@ -235,6 +236,8 @@ static void read_counter(int counter)
                update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats, count[0]);
        if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES, counter))
                update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats, count[0]);
+       if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS, counter))
+               update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats, count[0]);
 }
 
 static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
@@ -352,6 +355,14 @@ static void abs_printout(int counter, double avg)
                        ratio = avg / total;
 
                fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f IPC  ", ratio);
+       } else if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES, counter)) {
+               total = avg_stats(&runtime_branches_stats);
+
+               if (total)
+                       ratio = avg * 100 / total;
+
+               fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %%  ", ratio);
+
        } else {
                total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats);