[PATCH] perf stat: Add branch performance metric

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Sun Oct 18 2009 - 07:30:30 EST



When we count both branches and branch-misses it is useful to print out
the percentage of branch-misses:

# perf stat -e branches -e branch-misses /bin/true

Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

401684 branches # 0.000 M/sec
23301 branch-misses # 5.801 %

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 3db31e7..6a2e37e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct stats event_res_stats[MAX_COUNTERS][3];
struct stats runtime_nsecs_stats;
struct stats walltime_nsecs_stats;
struct stats runtime_cycles_stats;
+struct stats runtime_branches_stats;

#define MATCH_EVENT(t, c, counter) \
(attrs[counter].type == PERF_TYPE_##t && \
@@ -235,6 +237,8 @@ static void read_counter(int counter)
update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats, count[0]);
if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES, counter))
update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats, count[0]);
+ if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS, counter))
+ update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats, count[0]);
}

static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
@@ -352,6 +356,14 @@ static void abs_printout(int counter, double avg)
ratio = avg / total;

fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f IPC ", ratio);
+ } else if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES, counter)) {
+ total = avg_stats(&runtime_branches_stats);
+
+ if (total)
+ ratio = avg * 100 / total;
+
+ fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %% ", ratio);
+
} else {
total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats);

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