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Jiri Olsa bc22de9bcd perf stat: Display time in precision based on std deviation
Ingo suggested to display elapsed time for multirun workload (perf stat
-e) with precision based on the precision of the standard deviation.

In his own words:

  > This output is a slightly bit misleading:

  >  Performance counter stats for 'make -j128' (10 runs):
  >      27.988995256 seconds time elapsed                  ( +-  0.39% )

  > The 9 significant digits in the result, while only 1 is valid, suggests accuracy
  > where none exists.

  > It would be better if 'perf stat' would display elapsed time with a precision
  > adjusted to stddev, it should display at most 2 more significant digits than
  > the stddev inaccuracy.

  > I.e. in the above case 0.39% is 0.109, so we only have accuracy for 1 digit, and
  > so we should only display 3:

  >        27.988 seconds time elapsed                       ( +-  0.39% )

Plus a suggestion about the output, which is small enough and connected
with the above change that I merged both changes together.

  > Small output style nit - I think it would be nice if with --repeat the stddev was
  > also displayed in absolute values, besides percentage:
  >
  >       27.988 +- 0.109 seconds time elapsed   ( +- 0.39% )

The output is now:

   Performance counter stats for './perf bench sched pipe' (5 runs):
   SNIP
           13.3667 +- 0.0256 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.19% )

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423090823.32309-7-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.