Re: [PATCH v10 00/11] New perf ilist app

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 06:39:30PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> This patch series adds a new ilist app written in python using textual
> [1] for the UI. The app presents perf PMUs and events, displays the
> event information as in `perf list` while at the bottom of the console
> showing recent activity of the event in total and across all CPUs. It
> also displays metrics, placed in a tree through their metric group,
> again with counts being displayed in the bottom panel.
> 
> To run it you need the updated perf.cpython.so in your PYTHONPATH and
> then execute the script. Expanding PMUs and then selecting events will
> cause event informatin to be displayed in the top-right and the
> counters values to be displayed as sparklines and counts in the bottom
> half of the screen.
> 
> There's been feedback on how the app works, simplicity of
> implementation has been chosen as the first criteria as the app can be
> further refined from what is here. The choice of the name ilist rather
> than say istat was deliberate as I wanted the app to encourage PMU,
> event and metric discovery, as with perf list. The output counts and
> spark lines are just to give an indication of what the event
> gathers. ilist comes from interactive list, there's probably a better
> name.
> 
> [1] https://textual.textualize.io/
> 
> v10: Add Howard's reviewed-by and address documentation fix. Rebase
>      and drop build up patches merged in v6.17 by Namhyung.

Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,

- Arnaldo