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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>2018-04-23 11:08:21 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-04-26 09:30:27 -0300
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tree8a69dbfcd164035a8e1cf26ea571e7971cc636cf /tools/perf/Documentation
parentbc22de9bcdb2249150fb5b3c48fdc4f6bedd3ad7 (diff)
perf stat: Add --table option to display time of each run
Add --table option to display time for each run (-r option), like: $ perf stat --null -r 5 --table perf bench sched pipe Performance counter stats for './perf bench sched pipe' (5 runs): # Table of individual measurements: 5.379 (-0.176) 5.243 (-0.311) 5.238 (-0.317) 5.536 (-0.019) 6.377 (+0.823) # Final result: 5.555 +- 0.213 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.83% ) Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423090823.32309-8-jolsa@kernel.org [ Document the new option in 'perf stat's man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -116,6 +116,22 @@ Do not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs.
print counts using a CSV-style output to make it easy to import directly into
spreadsheets. Columns are separated by the string specified in SEP.
+--table:: Display time for each run (-r option), in a table format, e.g.:
+
+ $ perf stat --null -r 5 --table perf bench sched pipe
+
+ Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched pipe' (5 runs):
+
+ # Table of individual measurements:
+ 5.379 (-0.176)
+ 5.243 (-0.311)
+ 5.238 (-0.317)
+ 5.536 (-0.019)
+ 6.377 (+0.823)
+
+ # Final result:
+ 5.555 +- 0.213 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.83% )
+
-G name::
--cgroup name::
monitor only in the container (cgroup) called "name". This option is available only