From: Jin Yao <[email protected]> Documentation the new computation selection 'cycles'.
v4: --- Change the column 'Block cycles diff [start:end]' to '[Program Block Range] Cycles Diff' Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt index facd91e4e945..d5cc15e651cf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt @@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ OPTIONS -c:: --compute:: - Differential computation selection - delta, ratio, wdiff, delta-abs - (default is delta-abs). Default can be changed using diff.compute - config option. See COMPARISON METHODS section for more info. + Differential computation selection - delta, ratio, wdiff, cycles, + delta-abs (default is delta-abs). Default can be changed using + diff.compute config option. See COMPARISON METHODS section for + more info. -p:: --period:: @@ -280,6 +281,16 @@ If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd' computed as: - WEIGHT-A being the weight of the data file - WEIGHT-B being the weight of the baseline data file +cycles +~~~~~~ +If specified the '[Program Block Range] Cycles Diff' column is displayed. +It displays the cycles difference of same program basic block amongst +two perf.data. The program basic block is the code between two branches. + +'[Program Block Range]' indicates the range of a program basic block. +Source line is reported if it can be found otherwise uses symbol+offset +instead. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1] -- 2.20.1
