From f9cef0a90c4e7637f1ec98474a1a099aec45eb65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:17:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf stat: Add --sync/-S option --sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command. This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one iteration impacting the other. Elapsed time will stabilize for example: before: 3.971525714 seconds time elapsed ( +- 8.56% ) after: 3.211098537 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.52% ) So measurements will be more accurate. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed