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Date:   Fri, 8 Jun 2018 02:06:56 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] perf tools: Uniquify the event name if there's no
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:09:10AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:22 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:19:02PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:15:04AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > Currently by default we try to match the user specified PMU
> > > > name to all PMU units available and use them to aggregate
> > > > all matched PMUs event counts into one 'pattern' event.
> > > >
> > > > While this is useful for uncore events, it screws up names
> > > > for other events, where this is not desirable, like:
> > > >
> > > > Before:
> > > >   # perf stat -e cp/cpu-cycles/ kill
> > >
> > > I assume you mean cpU/cpu-cycles/
> > > >
> > > >    Performance counter stats for 'kill':
> > > >
> > > >            1,573,757      cp/cpu-cycles/
> > > >
> > > > Keeping the pattern matching logic, but making the name unique
> > > > in case there's no other match found. That fixes the example
> > > > above and hopefully does not screw up anything else.
> > > >
> And the problem I have with this approach, is that you do not really
> know what you are measuring.
> You have not way of knowing that the count comes from multiple PMU instances:
> 
> perf stat -a -e uncore_cb/clockticks/ kill
> 0 uncore_cb/clockticks/
> 
> I think you need to report that this is aggregated from uncore_cbox_0
> and uncore_cbox_1.
> Otherwise it is not clear what I am monitoring. And you hope that what
> you match in the regex
> is related.
> In my example should say:
> 0 uncore_cbox[0-1]/clockticks/

ok, makes sense.. also shouldnt be that hard to do.. will repost

thanks,
jirka