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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf sort: Add 'addr' sort key
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:40:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130326144023.GA1621@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364299918-31175-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org>


* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> 
> New addr sort key provides a way to sort the entries by the symbol
> addresses.

No objections from me - just wondering about the motivation: why would we 
want to sort by symbol address?

Perhaps to see the overhead layout/distribution within a DSO, to better 
cache-pack hot functions by placing them next to each other?

Putting a short usecase into the changelog (or even better, the 
documentation) would be nice.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26 12:11 [PATCH 1/3] perf sort: Add 'addr' sort key Namhyung Kim
2013-03-26 12:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf sort: Add 'addr_to/from' " Namhyung Kim
2013-03-26 12:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Fix alignment of symbol column when -v is given Namhyung Kim
2013-03-26 14:40 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-03-27  6:12   ` [PATCH 1/3] perf sort: Add 'addr' sort key Namhyung Kim
2013-03-27 20:59     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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