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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enhance perf to collect KVM guest os statistics from
 host side
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:33:44 +0200
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Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
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	oerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>, zhiteng.huang@intel.com
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
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On 03/16/2010 11:28 AM, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> Sorry. I found currently --pid isn't process but a thread (main thread).
>
> Ingo,
>
> Is it possible to support a new parameter or extend --inherit, so 'perf record' and
> 'perf top' could collect data on all threads of a process when the process is running?
>    

That seems like a worthwhile addition regardless of this thread.  
Profile all current threads and any new ones.  It probably makes sense 
to call this --pid and rename the existing --pid to --thread.

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