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From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Roberto Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	paulus@samba.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@ghostprotocols.net,
	namhyung@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:58:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130328235829.GA22981@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BNSkWCX2TVYU26A7qHFqr6F5Pw44wy76BSfnS5MnVDKGCh9w@mail.gmail.com>

Roberto Vitillo [ravitillo@lbl.gov] wrote:
| The proposed patch adds the convert tool to perf which allows to convert a
| perf.data file to a set of callgrind data files which can subsequently be
| displayed with kcachegrind.

Sounds interesting and useful. My only comment is that 'convert' is a
generic term and this is converting to a specific format (i.e callgrind).
In theory we could have conversions to other formats in the future ?

Any chance it could be called 'perf callgrind' ?

Sukadev


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-28 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26 19:14 [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool Roberto Vitillo
2013-03-27  7:23 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-03-27 17:07   ` Roberto Vitillo
2013-03-27 14:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-27 21:26 ` Viktor Ostashevskyi
2013-03-28 23:58 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
2013-03-29  4:18   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-03-29  4:50     ` Roberto Vitillo

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