From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
"David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Add reference timestamp to perf header
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:11:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292260289.6803.297.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101213170923.GB1691@nowhere>
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 18:09 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
>
> Right, but Peter wanted us to get rid of these user events types.
Yes they suck.
> I guess we can't really do this as new perf tools must be able
> to support old perf files.
Preferably, yes, but I don't see why we can't break the data file format
if we've got good reasons to.
> So this should be the last one to add. Something like PERF_RECORD_GEN_EVT
> that has a field in its headers containing a sub-type which can be this
> wall clock but can also host about everything in the future.
>
> This way we don't propagate more the possible overlap with the kernel.
I don't see why we should add more, that's going the wrong direction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 1:54 [PATCH 0/2] perf tools: add reference timestamp and use it in time history dump David Ahern
2010-12-08 1:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Add reference timestamp to perf header David Ahern
2010-12-12 20:16 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 13:15 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 16:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 14:39 ` David S. Ahern
2010-12-13 15:54 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 16:48 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 17:09 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 17:11 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-12-13 17:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 17:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:50 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 17:15 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 17:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:22 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 17:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:43 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 17:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 18:05 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-13 18:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:49 ` David S. Ahern
2010-12-13 17:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 18:01 ` David S. Ahern
2010-12-13 18:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 18:20 ` David S. Ahern
2010-12-13 19:08 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 19:15 ` David S. Ahern
2010-12-13 19:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 19:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-13 17:14 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-13 17:36 ` David S. Ahern
2010-12-13 17:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-08 1:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Add option to show time history of event samples David Ahern
2010-12-08 21:06 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-12 21:32 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-09 17:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] perf tools: add reference timestamp and use it in time history dump Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-12-12 21:39 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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2010-11-29 23:07 [PATCH 0/2] perf tools: reference timestamp and " David Ahern
2010-11-29 23:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: add reference timestamp to perf header David Ahern
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