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perf mem: Clarify load-latency in documentation
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Clarify in the documentation that 'perf mem report' reports use-latency,
not load/store-latency on Intel systems.

This often causes confusion with users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393596135-4227-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Andi Kleen authored and acmel committed Mar 14, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ from it, into perf.data. Perf record options are accepted and are passed through
"perf mem -t <TYPE> report" displays the result. It invokes perf report with the
right set of options to display a memory access profile.

Note that on Intel systems the memory latency reported is the use-latency,
not the pure load (or store latency). Use latency includes any pipeline
queueing delays in addition to the memory subsystem latency.

OPTIONS
-------
<command>...::
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