Re: Clarifications regarding the event output

Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Narayanan, Krishnaprasad" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> 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?

There is no timestamp, every sample happens when that many events have
happened.

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

Use ocount.

-Andi

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