From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: Add a new sort order: SORT_INCLUSIVE
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:39:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308153933.GD7976@somewhere.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331160079-13821-3-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:41:19PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Each entry that used to get added once to the histogram, now is added
> chain->nr times, each time with one less entry in the
> callchain.
>
> This will result in a non-leaf function that appears in a lot of
> samples to get a histogram entry with lots of hits.
>
> The user can then drill down into the callchains of functions that
> have high inclusive times.
I don't yet understand the point of this.
Imagine those three hists:
a -> b -> c
a -> b -> d
a-> e -> f
The fractal inverted mode (-G) will report this:
a--
|
----- b
| |
| -----c
| |
| -----d
|
----- e
|
-----f
The branch sorting is recursive so outstanding callers appear
in the first branches already.
So if your goal is to find important callers, I don't see why
the existing functionalities aren't enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 22:41 [PATCH 0/2] perf: add sort by inclusive time functionality (v2) Arun Sharma
2012-03-07 22:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: refactor add_hist_entry() code paths Arun Sharma
2012-03-07 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: Add a new sort order: SORT_INCLUSIVE Arun Sharma
2012-03-07 23:13 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-08 7:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-12 19:35 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-12 19:35 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-08 15:39 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2012-03-08 18:22 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-13 13:44 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-08 7:29 ` [PATCH 0/2] perf: add sort by inclusive time functionality (v2) Ingo Molnar
2012-03-08 15:31 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-08 18:49 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-08 18:49 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-12 7:15 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-03-12 18:05 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-12 18:05 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-13 1:11 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-03-12 7:43 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-03-12 18:21 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-12 18:21 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-12 19:58 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-12 19:58 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-13 1:36 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-03-15 14:50 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-03-15 17:41 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-15 17:41 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-13 1:16 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-03-13 18:45 ` Arun Sharma
2012-03-13 18:45 ` Arun Sharma
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