linux/Documentation
Ingo Molnar be1ac0d81d perf_counter tools: Also display time-normalized stat results
Add new column that normalizes counter results by
'nanoseconds spent running' unit.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench':

   10469.403605  task clock ticks     (msecs)
          75502  context switches     (events)
           9501  CPU migrations       (events)
          36158  pagefaults           (events)
    31975676185  CPU cycles           (events)
    26257738659  instructions         (events)
      108740581  cache references     (events)
       54606088  cache misses         (events)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:   810.514504 msecs

After:

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench':

   10469.403605  task clock ticks     (msecs)
          75502  context switches     #        0.007 M/sec
           9501  CPU migrations       #        0.001 M/sec
          36158  pagefaults           #        0.003 M/sec
    31975676185  CPU cycles           #     3054.202 M/sec
    26257738659  instructions         #     2508.045 M/sec
      108740581  cache references     #       10.387 M/sec
       54606088  cache misses         #        5.216 M/sec

 Wall-clock time elapsed:   810.514504 msecs

The advantage of that column is that it is characteristic of the
execution workflow, regardless of runtime. Hence 'hackbench 10'
will look similar to 'hackbench 15' - while the absolute counter
values are very different.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 09:46:45 +02:00
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ABI ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter 2009-04-21 00:35:47 -04:00
DocBook kgdb: gdb documentation fix 2009-05-15 07:56:25 -05:00
PCI PCI MSI: Add example request loop to MSI-HOWTO.txt 2009-03-20 11:35:04 -07:00
RCU Doc: Fix spelling in RCU/rculist_nulls.txt. 2009-04-02 01:33:51 -07:00
accounting Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: fix endless loop 2009-01-15 16:39:37 -08:00
acpi ACPI: update debug parameter documentation 2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
aoe aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'next-s3c-pm' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux into devel 2009-03-26 22:44:43 +00:00
auxdisplay .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: Add document about bfin-gpio 2009-01-07 23:14:38 +08:00
block block: update biodoc.txt on plugging 2009-04-15 08:28:11 +02:00
blockdev mflash: initial support 2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
cdrom doc/cdrom: Trvial documentation error, file not present 2008-10-10 08:22:44 +02:00
cgroups memcg: fix documentation 2009-04-13 15:04:33 -07:00
connector Documentation/connector/cn_test.c: don't use gfp_any() 2009-02-12 16:47:01 -08:00
console Typo: fro -> from 2007-07-19 10:04:47 -07:00
cpu-freq [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions 2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
cpuidle cpuidle: Add Documentation 2008-02-14 00:16:13 -05:00
cris fix random typos 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
crypto async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
development-process Fix a typo in the development process document. 2009-01-08 16:32:13 -07:00
device-mapper dm crypt: add documentation 2008-04-25 13:27:03 +01:00
driver-model Driver Core: early platform driver 2009-04-16 16:17:10 -07:00
dvb V4L/DVB (11138): get_dvb_firmware: add support for downloading the cx2584x firmware for pvrusb2 2009-03-30 12:43:31 -03:00
early-userspace Documentation: Remove last references to BitKeeper. 2008-04-21 22:19:05 +00:00
fault-injection fault-injection: fix example scripts in documentation 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
fb uvesafb: documentation update 2009-04-07 08:31:09 -07:00
filesystems mm: close page_mkwrite races 2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
firmware_class firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style 2008-04-21 22:23:30 +00:00
frv move frv docs one level up 2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
hwmon hwmon: add support for GMT G760A fan speed PWM controller 2009-04-07 08:31:03 -07:00
i2c Move the pcf8591 driver to hwmon 2009-03-30 21:46:43 +02:00
i2o documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
ia64 trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware 2009-03-30 15:21:59 +02:00
ide ide: update warm-plug HOWTO 2009-01-06 17:21:00 +01:00
infiniband IPoIB: Document newish features 2009-04-08 13:52:01 -07:00
input Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol 2009-04-30 10:41:39 -07:00
ioctl V4L/DVB (10870a): remove all references for video_decoder.h 2009-03-30 12:43:15 -03:00
isdn Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard 2009-04-27 05:37:39 -07:00
ja_JP Sync patch for jp_JP/stable_kernel_rules.txt 2009-01-28 15:55:48 -08:00
kbuild kbuild: introduce subdir-ccflags-y 2009-04-19 11:12:12 +02:00
kdump powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel 2008-10-22 15:01:22 +11:00
ko_KR HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected 2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
laptops thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23 2009-04-18 01:19:54 -04:00
lguest lguest: document 32-bit and PAE requirements 2009-04-19 23:14:02 +09:30
m68k [SCSI] 53c7xx: fix removal fallout 2008-01-11 18:22:30 -06:00
make Documentation/make/headers_install.txt 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
mips ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQ 2009-01-14 19:19:03 +01:00
misc-devices drivers/misc/isl29003.c: driver for the ISL29003 ambient light sensor 2009-04-01 08:59:18 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
mtd [MTD] [NAND] nand_ecc.c: rewrite for improved performance 2008-08-16 10:55:33 +01:00
namespaces The namespaces compatibility list doc 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
netlabel Fix occurrences of "the the " 2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
networking Bonding: fix zero address hole bug in arp_ip_target list 2009-04-13 00:12:41 -07:00
parisc
pcmcia .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
perf_counter perf_counter tools: Also display time-normalized stat results 2009-05-29 09:46:45 +02:00
power pm: document use of RTC in pm_trace 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 into merge 2009-04-22 13:02:09 +10:00
prctl generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC 2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
s390 documentation: update s390 header file paths 2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
scheduler trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to 2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
scsi [SCSI] aacraid driver update 2009-04-03 09:23:11 -05:00
serial Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree. 2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
sh sh: Kill off remaining CONFIG_SH_KGDB bits. 2008-12-22 18:44:05 +09:00
sound ALSA: add missing definitions(letters) to HD-Audio.txt 2009-04-15 11:51:50 +02:00
sparc sparc: Remove Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt 2008-08-29 02:15:25 -07:00
spi spi: documentation: emphasise spi_master.setup() semantics 2009-04-21 13:41:50 -07:00
sysctl Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" 2009-05-15 11:32:24 +02:00
telephony remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation 2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
thermal thermal: update the documentation 2008-04-29 02:49:47 -04:00
timers hpet: /dev/hpet - fixes and cleanup 2008-07-31 18:45:41 +02:00
trace tracing: consolidate documents 2009-04-09 07:28:10 +02:00
uml Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
usb USB: usbmon: Add binary API v1 2009-03-24 16:20:36 -07:00
video4linux V4L/DVB (11373): v4l2-common: add explicit v4l2_device pointer as first arg to new_(probed)_subdev 2009-04-06 21:44:24 -03:00
vm mm: add documentation describing what tsk->active_mm means vs tsk->mm 2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00
w1 w1: send status messages after command processing 2009-01-08 08:31:14 -08:00
watchdog .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
wimax i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage 2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
zh_CN Chinese: add translation of Codingstyle 2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
00-INDEX trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to 2009-03-30 15:22:02 +02:00
BUG-HUNTING Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTING 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Changes Documentation/Changes: add required versions for new filesystems 2009-01-29 18:19:30 -08:00
CodingStyle fix emacs indenting howto filename expansion 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
DMA-API.txt dma-debug: Documentation update 2009-03-17 12:56:47 +01:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T'' 2006-11-30 04:55:36 +01:00
DMA-attributes.txt powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code 2008-07-22 10:39:36 +10:00
DMA-mapping.txt dma-mapping: update the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK related documentations 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
HOWTO Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
IO-mapping.txt Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/ 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
IPMI.txt IPMI: new NMI handling 2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
IRQ-affinity.txt genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3) 2008-06-05 15:18:30 +02:00
IRQ.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Makefile docsrc: build Documentation/ sources 2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
ManagementStyle docs: fix ManagementStyle book name 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
SAK.txt Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SELinux.txt selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2) 2008-08-27 08:54:08 +10:00
SM501.txt Tweak Documentation/SM501.txt 2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
SecurityBugs
Smack.txt smack: Add a new '-CIPSO' option to the network address label configuration 2009-03-28 15:01:37 +11:00
SubmitChecklist documentation: explain memory barriers 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingPatches Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6 2008-10-16 12:18:16 -07:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt documentation: atomic_add_unless() doesn't imply mb() on failure 2008-02-23 17:52:36 -08:00
bad_memory.txt Document handling of bad memory 2008-12-03 16:09:53 -07:00
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 2007-05-09 08:58:19 +02:00
braille-console.txt Basic braille screen reader support 2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
bt8xxgpio.txt gpio: add bt8xxgpio driver 2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
c2port.txt Add c2 port support 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
cachetlb.txt remove unused flush_tlb_pgtables 2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed 2008-12-18 12:08:05 +01:00
cpu-load.txt [PATCH] Documentation: CPU load calculation description 2007-03-01 14:53:39 -08:00
cputopology.txt cpumask: Use topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() 2009-01-11 19:12:49 +01:00
credentials.txt CRED: Documentation 2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt Documentation: Clarify when module debugging actually works. 2008-02-03 15:27:38 +02:00
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt firewire: fw-ohci: add option for remote debugging 2008-04-18 17:55:33 +02:00
dell_rbu.txt trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments 2009-01-06 11:28:07 +01:00
devices.txt lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100 2009-04-07 08:44:05 -07:00
dmaengine.txt async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
dontdiff dontdiff: Fix asm exclude 2009-03-26 15:45:43 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words 2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
edac.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
eisa.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
email-clients.txt Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmail 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
exception.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt i2c-voodoo3: Deprecate in favor of tdfxfb 2009-04-13 17:02:13 +02:00
gpio.txt gpio: gpio_{request,free}() now required (feature removal) 2009-04-02 19:04:51 -07:00
highuid.txt [SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support. 2008-04-21 15:10:15 -07:00
hw_random.txt hw_random doc updates 2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
ics932s401 ics932s401: new clock generator chip driver 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
initrd.txt use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs 2008-02-03 14:54:41 +02:00
io-mapping.txt io mapping: improve documentation 2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
io_ordering.txt
iostats.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
irqflags-tracing.txt [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, docs 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
isapnp.txt
java.txt Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes 2007-10-20 02:37:21 +02:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt kernel-doc: restrict syntax for private: and public: 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
kernel-docs.txt doc: update to URL and status of kernel-docs.txt entry 2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt doc: small kernel-parameters updates 2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
keys-request-key.txt keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string 2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
keys.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
kobject.txt kobject: Make Documentation/kobject.txt a little more coherent. 2009-01-06 10:44:32 -08:00
kprobes.txt kprobes: support kretprobe and jprobe per-probe disabling 2009-04-07 08:31:08 -07:00
kref.txt docs: convert kref semaphore to mutex 2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
ldm.txt LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disks 2007-05-21 09:58:40 -07:00
leds-class.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
local_ops.txt documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu 2008-12-01 13:51:26 +01:00
lockdep-design.txt locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits 2009-04-26 18:21:24 +02:00
lockstat.txt lockstat: contend with points 2008-10-20 15:43:10 +02:00
logo.gif Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
logo.txt Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
magic-number.txt documentation: update header file paths 2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
markers.txt markers: comment marker_synchronize_unregister() on data dependency 2008-11-28 16:47:41 +01:00
mca.txt The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being 2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
md.txt Documentation/md.txt update 2009-03-31 15:18:37 +11:00
memory-barriers.txt read_barrier_depends arch fixlets 2008-05-14 10:05:18 -07:00
memory-hotplug.txt mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs 2009-01-06 15:59:00 -08:00
memory.txt
mono.txt Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig 2006-10-03 22:53:09 +02:00
mutex-design.txt Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs 2007-10-20 00:15:26 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2 2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
nommu-mmap.txt NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.txt plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter 2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt fix a typo in Documentation/pi-futex.txt 2006-10-03 23:39:02 +02:00
pnp.txt Documentation: Replace obsolete "driverfs" with "sysfs". 2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt DOC: add printk-formats.txt 2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
prio_tree.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
rbtree.txt [PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt 2007-02-11 10:51:35 -08:00
rfkill.txt rfkill: add master_switch_mode and EPO lock to rfkill and rfkill-input 2008-10-31 19:00:09 -04:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
robust-futexes.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc 2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
rt-mutex-design.txt [PATCH] typo fixes for rt-mutex-design.txt 2006-10-01 00:39:24 -07:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt rtc: cleanup example code 2008-02-06 10:41:14 -08:00
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt Document the slow work thread pool 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
sparse.txt Documentation: explain the difference between __bitwise and __bitwise__ 2009-04-11 08:18:11 +02:00
spinlocks.txt Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt 2008-04-11 13:21:14 -06:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt stable_api_nonsense.txt: Disambiguate the use of "this" by using "that" to refer to the syscall interface 2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
stable_kernel_rules.txt Update stable tree documentation 2008-10-29 15:03:49 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense 2009-05-08 19:22:20 -07:00
sysrq.txt Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
tomoyo.txt tomoyo: add Documentation/tomoyo.txt 2009-04-14 09:14:58 +10:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol 2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
unicode.txt
unshare.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
video-output.txt output: Add output class document 2006-12-20 01:46:58 -05:00
volatile-considered-harmful.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
voyager.txt
zorro.txt