Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] perf diff: Add new filter options

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 09:05:40PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> This patch series creates following new filter options for perf diff.
> 
> --time:
>     It supports time percent with multipe time ranges. Time string is
>     'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
> 
>     For example:
> 
>     Select the second 10% time slice to diff:
>     perf diff --time 10%/2
> 
>     Select from 0% to 10% time slice to diff:
>     perf diff --time 0%-10%
> 
>     Select the first and the second 10% time slices to diff:
>     perf diff --time 10%/1,10%/2
> 
>     Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices to diff:
>     perf diff --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
> 
>     It also supports to analyze samples within given time window as:
>     <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.microseconds. If start
>     is not given (i.e., time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at
>     the beginning of the file. If stop time is not given (i.e, time
>     string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes to end of file. Time string is
>     'a1.b1,c1.d1:a2.b2,c2.d2'. Use ':' to separate timestamps for different
>     perf.data files.
> 
>     For example, we get the timestamp information from perf script.
> 
>     perf script -i perf.data.old
>       mgen 13940 [000]  3946.361400: ...
> 
>     perf script -i perf.data
>       mgen 13940 [000]  3971.150589 ...
> 
>     perf diff --time 3946.361400,:3971.150589,
> 
>     It analyzes the perf.data.old from the timestamp 3946.361400 to
>     the end of perf.data.old and analyzes the perf.data from the
>     timestamp 3971.150589 to the end of perf.data.
> 
> --cpu:
>     Only diff samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
>     be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
>     CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
>     CPUs.
> 
>     For example:
>     perf diff --cpu 0,1
> 
>     It only diff the samples for CPU0 and CPU1.
> 
> --pid:
>     Only diff samples for given process ID (comma separated list).
> 
> --tid:
>     Only diff samples for given thread ID (comma separated list).
> 
>     For example,
>     perf diff --tid 13965
> 
>     It only diff the samples for thread 13965.
> 
>  v4:
>  ---
>  Update abstime_str_dup(), let it return error if strdup
>  is failed, and update __cmd_diff() accordingly.
> 
>  Only the patch "perf diff: Support --time filter option" is impacted
>  Others are no logical changes.
> 
> Jin Yao (3):
>   perf diff: Support --time filter option
>   perf diff: Support --cpu filter option
>   perf diff: Support --pid/--tid filter options

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka