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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events
On 10/15/12 8:55 AM, Robert Richter wrote:

[..]
> Perf tool works then out-of-the-box with:
>
> $ perf record -e cpu/stalled-cycles-fixed-point/ ...
>
> The event string can easily be reused by other architectures as a
> quasi standard.

I like Robert's proposal better. It's hard to model all the stall events
(eg: instruction decoder related stalls on x86) in a hardware
independent way.

Another area to think about: software engineers are generally busy and
have a limited amount of time to devote to hardware event based
optimizations. The most common question I hear is: what is the expected
perf gain if I fix this? It's hard to answer that with just the stall
events.

-Arun


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