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| author | Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> | 2026-01-27 10:44:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2026-01-28 15:18:45 -0300 |
| commit | 2f3d6ea05deca7c1c653e2e53d73ac5a81378d53 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a5436ecafe8af09b5ed2f61daacb22062c119fb /tools | |
| parent | 59341f4e171170d3e2be50047508569a57eee829 (diff) | |
perf jevents: Add context switch metrics for Intel
Metrics break down context switches for different kinds of
instruction.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Edward Baker <edward.baker@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py | 58 |
1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py index bc3c50285916..9cf4bd8ac769 100755 --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py @@ -263,6 +263,63 @@ def IntelBr(): description="breakdown of retired branch instructions") +def IntelCtxSw() -> MetricGroup: + cs = Event("context\\-switches") + metrics = [ + Metric("lpm_cs_rate", "Context switches per second", + d_ratio(cs, interval_sec), "ctxsw/s") + ] + + ev = Event("instructions") + metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_instr", "Instructions per context switch", + d_ratio(ev, cs), "instr/cs")) + + ev = Event("cycles") + metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_cycles", "Cycles per context switch", + d_ratio(ev, cs), "cycles/cs")) + + try: + ev = Event("MEM_INST_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS", "MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS") + metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_loads", "Loads per context switch", + d_ratio(ev, cs), "loads/cs")) + except: + pass + + try: + ev = Event("MEM_INST_RETIRED.ALL_STORES", + "MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_STORES") + metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_stores", "Stores per context switch", + d_ratio(ev, cs), "stores/cs")) + except: + pass + + try: + ev = Event("BR_INST_RETIRED.NEAR_TAKEN", "BR_INST_RETIRED.TAKEN_JCC") + metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_br_taken", "Branches taken per context switch", + d_ratio(ev, cs), "br_taken/cs")) + except: + pass + + try: + l2_misses = (Event("L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_MISS") + + Event("L2_RQSTS.RFO_MISS") + + Event("L2_RQSTS.CODE_RD_MISS")) + try: + l2_misses += Event("L2_RQSTS.HWPF_MISS", + "L2_RQSTS.L2_PF_MISS", "L2_RQSTS.PF_MISS") + except: + pass + + metrics.append(Metric("lpm_cs_l2_misses", "L2 misses per context switch", + d_ratio(l2_misses, cs), "l2_misses/cs")) + except: + pass + + return MetricGroup("lpm_cs", metrics, + description=("Number of context switches per second, instructions " + "retired & core cycles between context switches")) + + def IntelIlp() -> MetricGroup: tsc = Event("msr/tsc/") c0 = Event("msr/mperf/") @@ -678,6 +735,7 @@ def main() -> None: Smi(), Tsx(), IntelBr(), + IntelCtxSw(), IntelIlp(), IntelL2(), IntelLdSt(), |
