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On 05/01/2022 16:58, Andrew Kilroy wrote:
>>
> 

Sorry for very slow response..

> The --topdown kernel event colouring is dictated by a large if-else 
> statement in stat-shadow.c:perf_stat__print_shadow_stats.
> 
> There are branches depending on what is returned by 
> perf_stat_evsel__is() for example
> 
>      } else if (perf_stat_evsel__is(evsel, TOPDOWN_FETCH_BUBBLES)) {
>          double fe_bound = td_fe_bound(cpu, st, &rsd);
> 
>          if (fe_bound > 0.2)
>              color = PERF_COLOR_RED;
>          print_metric(config, ctxp, color, "%8.1f%%", "frontend bound",
>                  fe_bound * 100.);
>      } else if (perf_stat_evsel__is(evsel, TOPDOWN_SLOTS_RETIRED)) {
> 
> 
> 
> Because the patches are enabling metrics (equivalent of the -M 
> 'somemetricname' option), the perf_stat__print_shadow_stats function 
> always makes calls to generic_metric(), where colours are never picked.
> 
> Seeing thresholds like:
> 
>    retiring > 0.7
>    fe_bound > 0.2
>    be_bound > 0.2
>    bad_spec > 0.1
> 
> 
> I'm not sure about adding the colouring really.  Are these thresholds 
> x86 specific?

There is info on topdown for vtune here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documentation/vtune-cookbook/top/methodologies/top-down-microarchitecture-analysis-method.html

The threshold info described there seems somewhat consistent with perf 
tool topdown thresholds and that is based on general guidelines for 
certain compute categories.

Andi did mention "specification" here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABPqkBRftsHEAEwgCn3i3=mfk9fjh5r4MycdjHKRka5voTj9JA@mail.gmail.com/

But I don't know it, apart from a paper:
file:///home/john/Downloads/TopDown-Yasin-ISPASS14.pdf

Thanks,
John