perf sched: Rename 'switches' column header to 'count' and add usage description, options for latency

Rename 'Switches' to 'Count' and document metrics shown for perf
sched latency output. Also add options possible with perf sched
latency.

Initially, after seeing the output of 'perf sched latency', the term
'Switches' seemed like it's the number of context switches-in for a
particular task, but upon going through the code, it was observed that
it's actually keeping track of number of times a delay was calculated so
that it is used in calculation of the average delay.

Actually, the switches here is a subset of number of context switches-in
because there are some cases where the count is not incremented in
switch-in handler 'add_sched_in_event'. For example when a task is
switched-in while it's state is not ready to run(!= THREAD_WAIT_CPU).

commit d9340c1db3f52460 ("perf sched: Display time in milliseconds,
reorganize output") changed it from the original count to switches.

So, renamed switches to count to make things a bit more clearer and
added the metrics description of latency in the document.

Reviewed-by: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328090005.8321-1-vineethr@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 0fce7d8986c0..5977c49ae2c7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -3213,7 +3213,7 @@ static int perf_sched__lat(struct perf_sched *sched)
 	perf_sched__sort_lat(sched);
 
 	printf("\n -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
-	printf("  Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Avg delay ms    | Max delay ms    | Max delay start           | Max delay end          |\n");
+	printf("  Task                  |   Runtime ms  |  Count   | Avg delay ms    | Max delay ms    | Max delay start           | Max delay end          |\n");
 	printf(" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n");
 
 	next = rb_first_cached(&sched->sorted_atom_root);