Re: [PATCH 0/7] Share events between metrics

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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:14 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:28:07AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Metric groups contain metrics. Metrics create groups of events to
> > ideally be scheduled together. Often metrics refer to the same events,
> > for example, a cache hit and cache miss rate. Using separate event
> > groups means these metrics are multiplexed at different times and the
> > counts don't sum to 100%. More multiplexing also decreases the
> > accuracy of the measurement.
> >
> > This change orders metrics from groups or the command line, so that
> > the ones with the most events are set up first. Later metrics see if
> > groups already provide their events, and reuse them if
> > possible. Unnecessary events and groups are eliminated.
> >
> > The option --metric-no-group is added so that metrics aren't placed in
> > groups. This affects multiplexing and may increase sharing.
> >
> > The option --metric-mo-merge is added and with this option the
> > existing grouping behavior is preserved.
> >
> > Using skylakex metrics I ran the following shell code to count the
> > number of events for each metric group (this ignores metric groups
> > with a single metric, and one of the duplicated TopdownL1 and
> > TopDownL1 groups):
>
> hi,
> I'm getting parser error with:
>
> [jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -M IPC,CPI -a -I 1000
> event syntax error: '..ed.thread}:W{inst_retired.any,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread}:W,{inst_retired.any,cycles}:W'
>                                   \___ parser error
>
> jirka

Ah, looks like an issue introduced by:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200520072814.128267-8-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
as there is a missing comma. I'll investigate after some breakfast.

Thanks,
Ian



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