On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:44 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> >> I know the answer, because I know what's going on under the >> hood. But what about the average user? > > I'm still wondering if the avg user really thinks 'instructions' is a > useful metric for other than obtaining ipc measurements. > Yeah, for many users CPI (or IPC) is a useful metric.
> The avg user wants time domain measurements, like what's the most > expensive function, or most expensive cache-miss etc.. > Yes, you have those too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
