The Topdown Microarchitecture Analysis (TMA) Method is a structured
analysis methodology to identify critical performance bottlenecks in
out-of-order processors. From the Ice Lake and later platforms, the
Topdown information can be retrieved from the dedicated "metrics"
register, which isn't impacted by other events. Also, the Topdown
metrics support both per thread/process and per core measuring. Adding
Topdown metrics events as default events can enrich the default
measuring information, and would not cost any extra multiplexing.
Introduce arch_evlist__add_default_attrs() to allow architecture
specific default events. Add the Topdown metrics events in the X86
specific arch_evlist__add_default_attrs(). Other architectures can add
their own default events later separately.
With the patch:
$ perf stat sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.82 msec task-clock:u # 0.001 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 K/sec
61 page-faults:u # 0.074 M/sec
319,941 cycles:u # 0.388 GHz
242,802 instructions:u # 0.76 insn per cycle
54,380 branches:u # 66.028 M/sec
4,043 branch-misses:u # 7.43% of all branches
1,585,555 slots:u # 1925.189 M/sec
238,941 topdown-retiring:u # 15.0% retiring
410,378 topdown-bad-spec:u # 25.8% bad speculation
634,222 topdown-fe-bound:u # 39.9% frontend bound
304,675 topdown-be-bound:u # 19.2% backend bound
1.001791625 seconds time elapsed
0.000000000 seconds user
0.001572000 seconds sys
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210121133752.118327-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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