Clarifications regarding the event output

"Narayanan, Krishnaprasad" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hallo all,

I am using Oprofile version 0.9.9 and use Operf command with -separate-cpu to obtain information on the following events: CPU_CLK_UNHALTED, INST_MISSES, INST_RETIRED, LLC_MISSES, LLC_REFS and BR_MISS_PRED_RETIRED with sampling rate as 1000000. The sampling rate here refers to the count flag that is specified for every event.

I run the Operf command in the background and for every 1 sec, I obtain the output from Opreport which is dumped to an output file.

Can I seek answers for the following questions?

a)      Are the values for the events that are generated every 1 sec is a cumulative sum from the previous timestamp? For ex, at timestamp T1, if there are 100 instructions retired and at timestamp T1+1, there are 200 instructions retired, can I know the event value (output) at timestamp  T1+1? Is it 200 or 100?

b)      Can I also know for which of these events, the difference between the current and previous output is applicable?

c)      Besides, can I kindly know the methodology to compute the total count of instructions?

Regards,
Krishnaprasad

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