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From: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf: add sort by inclusive time functionality (v2)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:58:04 -0700
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On 3/12/12 11:21 AM, Arun Sharma wrote:

>>
>> BTW, I don't like the name 'inclusive' as a sort key. If it cares about
>> time, IMHO, the name should contain 'time' - something like 'itime' or
>> 'inctime'?
>
> The existing sort orders: pid, comm, dso, symbol, parent -- all care
> about time, but none of them have time in their name?

I'll take that back. What they sort on depends on the event.

perf record -ge cache-misses
perf report -s inclusive

will sort by the number of cache-misses and not time.

  -Arun