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authorJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>2018-11-30 16:54:57 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-17 20:55:49 +0300
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perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage
Add explanations for new columns "IPC" and "IPC coverage" in perf documentation. v5: --- Update the description according to Ingo's comments. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543586097-27632-5-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ OPTIONS
And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to
and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'.
+ When the sort key symbol is specified, columns "IPC" and "IPC Coverage"
+ are enabled automatically. Column "IPC" reports the average IPC per function
+ and column "IPC coverage" reports the percentage of instructions with
+ sampled IPC in this function. IPC means Instruction Per Cycle. If it's low,
+ it indicates there may be a performance bottleneck when the function is
+ executed, such as a memory access bottleneck. If a function has high overhead
+ and low IPC, it's worth further analyzing it to optimize its performance.
+
If the --mem-mode option is used, the following sort keys are also available
(incompatible with --branch-stack):
symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop, dcacheline.