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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 -tip] perf_counter: parse-events.c introduce alias
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From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > perf test also need some command to execute otherwise it will also 
> > show long list of <inactive>
> 
> I think what it should do is to execute test-cases _internally_. Not 
> just execute some random command on the system and hope for events.
> 

Can you suggest some good test cases where we can get numbers for almost
all the events on each and every run.


> >  context-switches                                         7956
> >  CPU-migrations                                              7
> 
> this needs to be provoked intentionally via sched_setaffinity(): 
> first migrate to cpu0, then to cpu1.
> 

There should be some option from user or we test it each time.

> >  L1-data-Cache-Load-Referencees                      398303881
> >  L1-data-Cache-Load-Misses                             3552374
> >  L1-data-Cache-Store-Referencees                        270178
> >  L1-data-Cache-Store-Misses                         <inactive>
> 
> this is probably inactive due to AMD not having events for that and 
> the generic cache event being 0 there, right?
> 

Yes, it is not set for AMD.

Thanks,
--
JSR

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