@@ -1,34 +1,34 @@
[
{
- "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
- "BriefDescription": "Frontend bound L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
+ "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that were stalled due to resource constraints in the frontend of the processor.",
"DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1",
"MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1",
"MetricName": "frontend_bound",
- "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots"
},
{
- "MetricExpr": "(1 - op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
- "BriefDescription": "Bad speculation L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricExpr": "100 * ((1 - op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots * cpu_cycles)))",
+ "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that executed operations and didn't retire due to a pipeline flush.\nThis indicates cycles that were utilized but inefficiently.",
"DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1",
"MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1",
"MetricName": "bad_speculation",
- "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots"
},
{
- "MetricExpr": "(op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
- "BriefDescription": "Retiring L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricExpr": "100 * ((op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots * cpu_cycles)))",
+ "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that retired operations, which indicates cycles that were utilized efficiently.",
"DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1",
"MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1",
"MetricName": "retiring",
- "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots"
},
{
- "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
- "BriefDescription": "Backend Bound L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
+ "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that were stalled due to resource constraints in the backend of the processor.",
"DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1",
"MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1",
"MetricName": "backend_bound",
- "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots"
}
]
Metrics will be published here [1] going forwards, but they have slightly different scale units. To allow autogenerated metrics to be added more easily, update the scale units to match. The more detailed descriptions have also been taken and added to the common file. [1]: https://gitlab.arm.com/telemetry-solution/telemetry-solution/-/tree/main/data/pmu/cpu/ Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> --- tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json | 24 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)