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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Alexander Shishkin" <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	"Namhyung Kim" <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf report: Skip symbols for idle symbols
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:18:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y078HUZ5FgZ/ZyaU@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7e79f3a-be97-334b-84f2-76da0981e991@gmail.com>

Em Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 02:54:07PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki escreveu:
> On 8.06.2022 07:51, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> > 
> > Displaying idle symbols is rather useless and makes reviewing "real"
> > symbols harder. perf top already skips them so perf report should
> > probably do the same.
> > 
> > BEFORE
> > 
> > # Overhead  Command          Shared Object          Symbol
> > # ........  ...............  .....................  ...................................
> > #
> >      75.04%  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] arch_cpu_idle
> >       1.05%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __pi___inval_dcache_area
> >       0.78%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
> >       0.75%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] fib_table_lookup
> >       0.58%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __dev_queue_xmit
> >       0.56%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] bcm4908_enet_start_xmit
> >       0.55%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __skb_flow_dissect
> >       0.53%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __pi___clean_dcache_area_poc
> > 
> > AFTER
> > 
> > # Overhead  Command          Shared Object          Symbol
> > # ........  ...............  .....................  ...................................
> > #
> >       4.21%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __pi___inval_dcache_area
> >       3.13%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
> >       3.01%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] fib_table_lookup
> >       2.32%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __dev_queue_xmit
> >       2.23%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] bcm4908_enet_start_xmit
> >       2.21%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __skb_flow_dissect
> >       2.13%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __pi___clean_dcache_area_poc
> >       2.00%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] eth_type_trans
> >       1.86%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] bcm4908_enet_poll_rx
> >       1.73%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] __local_bh_enable_ip
> >       1.63%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] fib_rules_lookup
> >       1.61%  ksoftirqd/0      [kernel.kallsyms]      [k] bcm4908_enet_poll_tx
> >       (...)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Ping? Does it look OK to you?

Its ok, but I wonder if after all those years changing this default
won't confuse users, so perhaps adding a 'I' hotkey to toggle showing
idle symbols?

Additionally having a 'perf config report.hide_idle=true' (for 'perf
top' as well), so that users can just switch to their liking?

Also add an entry to tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt so that it
appears from time to time on the last line on the screen?

- Arnaldo

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-19  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-08  5:51 [PATCH] perf report: Skip symbols for idle symbols Rafał Miłecki
2022-10-18 12:54 ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-10-18 19:18   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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