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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] perf vendor events arm64: Add AmpereOne metrics


Hi James,

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, James Clark wrote:
>
>
> On 26/08/2023 20:23, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
>> This patch adds AmpereOne metrics. The metrics also work around
>> the issue related to some of the events.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com>
>> ---
>> .../arch/arm64/ampere/ampereone/metrics.json | 396 ++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 396 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/ampere/ampereone/metrics.json
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/ampere/ampereone/metrics.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/ampere/ampereone/metrics.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..b623d8a9e3dc
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/ampere/ampereone/metrics.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,396 @@
>
> [...]
>
>> + {
>> + "MetricExpr": "STALL_SLOT_BACKEND / (CPU_CYCLES * 4)",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Fraction of slots backend bound",
>> + "MetricGroup": "Default;TopDownL1",
>> + "MetricName": "backend_bound",
>> + "ScaleUnit": "100%"
>> + },
>
> Hi Ilkaa,
>
> For these topdown metrics, as long as they are the same as the standard
> one you can remove anything that is duplicated. This might make it
> easier to make changes across all the topdown metrics in the future and
> have consistent descriptions across CPUs. For example this backend_bound
> one could look like this:
>
> {
> "ArchStdEvent": "backend_bound",
> }

Nice, basically the same way as architectured events.

>
> This assumes that you have the slots sysfs file available, otherwise you
> could leave only the formula in.
>
> We also decided to make the units for the topdown metrics "percent of
> slots" as we thought more specificity in the units was clearer.

I'll take a look at those and update the patch accordingly.

Cheers, Ilkka

>
> Thanks
> James
>
>> + {
>> + "MetricExpr": "1 - (retired_fraction + slots_lost_misspeculation_fraction + backend_bound)",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Fraction of slots frontend bound",
>> + "MetricGroup": "Default;TopDownL1",
>> + "MetricName": "frontend_bound",
>> + "ScaleUnit": "100%"
>> + },
>> + {
>> + "MetricExpr": "(OP_SPEC - OP_RETIRED) / (CPU_CYCLES * 4)",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Fraction of slots lost due to misspeculation",
>> + "MetricGroup": "Default;TopDownL1",
>> + "MetricName": "slots_lost_misspeculation_fraction",
>> + "ScaleUnit": "100%"
>> + },
>> + {
>> + "MetricExpr": "OP_RETIRED / (CPU_CYCLES * 4)",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Fraction of slots retiring, useful work",
>> + "MetricGroup": "Default;TopDownL1",
>> + "MetricName": "retired_fraction",
>> + "ScaleUnit": "100%"
>> + },
>> + {
>

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