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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt index 474a4941f65d..1a27bfe05039 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt @@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ OPTIONS And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'. + When the sort key symbol is specified, columns "IPC" and "IPC Coverage" + are enabled automatically. Column "IPC" reports the average IPC per function + and column "IPC coverage" reports the percentage of instructions with + sampled IPC in this function. IPC means Instruction Per Cycle. If it's low, + it indicates there may be a performance bottleneck when the function is + executed, such as a memory access bottleneck. If a function has high overhead + and low IPC, it's worth further analyzing it to optimize its performance. + If the --mem-mode option is used, the following sort keys are also available (incompatible with --branch-stack): symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop, dcacheline. @@ -244,7 +252,7 @@ OPTIONS Usually more convenient to use --branch-history for this. value can be: - - percent: diplay overhead percent (default) + - percent: display overhead percent (default) - period: display event period - count: display event count |