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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:55:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160111105550.GA300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160109095001.GB7818@danjae.kornet>


* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> > On top of this, what do you think about only doing a single tip per day, the 'tip 
> > of the day'? That would have two effects:
> > 
> >  - people who know all this already see this less
> > 
> >  - people who don't know all this will perhaps be more attentive, because a tip 
> >    for every report is more likely to get ignored.
> > 
> > This could be done via a flag in ~/.perf/ or so.
> 
> Not sure.  Some people wanted to see more tips more frequently.

Fair enough!

I now had some experience with the tips, and they are not intrusive.

> I think the 'tip of the day' might be good for regular users, but many people 
> just use perf when they need it and forget about it soon.  For those people it'd 
> be better to suggest useful tips more often.

Ok.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-11 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-07 11:41 [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line Namhyung Kim
2016-01-08  7:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-08  8:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-09  9:56     ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-08 12:54   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-09  9:55     ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-09  9:50   ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-11 10:55     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-01-09 16:40 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim

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