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| author | Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com> | 2026-01-27 18:50:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2026-01-28 15:18:41 -0300 |
| commit | 34b0a58eef04a49376e4103efc5b09f1e33e594a (patch) | |
| tree | a3e82bea5c08365cb6f828373113379a703ab35d | |
| parent | f7dc49645346d9d47825b60c4557da6885d48037 (diff) | |
perf sched stats: Fixes in man page
Fix the incorrect description of the schedstats report. Also fix the
spelling errors in man page.
Fixes: 800af362d68945e5 ("perf sched stats: Add details in man page")
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt index 5bfb7bb6c633..4d9981609c04 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched': exposed through the file ``/proc/schedstat``. These counters are enabled or disabled via the sysctl governed by the file ``/proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats``. These counters accounts for many scheduler events such as ``schedule()`` calls, load-balancing - events, ``try_to_wakeup()`` call among others. This is useful in understading the + events, ``try_to_wakeup()`` call among others. This is useful in understanding the scheduler behavior for the workload. Note: The tool will not give correct results if there is topological reordering or @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched': A detailed description of the schedstats can be found in the Kernel Documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/scheduler/sched-stats.html - The result can be interprested as follows: + The result can be interpreted as follows: The `perf sched stats report` starts with description of the columns present in the report. These column names are given before cpu and domain stats to improve @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched': Next is the total profiling time in terms of jiffies: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Time elapsed (in jiffies) : 24537 + Time elapsed (in jiffies) : 2323 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next is CPU scheduling statistics. These are simple diffs of /proc/schedstat CPU lines @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ There are several variants of 'perf sched': While profiling was active, the load-balancer found 28490 times the load needs to be balanced on a newly idle CPU 0. Following value encapsulated - inside $ is average jiffies between two events (28490 / 24537 = 0.08). + inside $ is average jiffies between two events (2323 / 28490 = 0.08). Next are active_load_balance() stats. alb did not trigger while the profiling was active, hence it's all 0s. |
