From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
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>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>,
Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist periods (v2)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:08:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111130844.GB26853@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131111121352.GB21397@gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> It's not an irrelevant feature at all! :-)
>
> It's just that for any sort of longer profile it was pretty
> difficult/frustrating to use, which I think held back adoption.
>
> That performance problem got fixed now by you and Namhyung, so I think
> we'll see even wider adoption of call-graph profiling...
Ah I see now. At the time Linus reported his issue, I had the feeling his
usecase was a bit "extreme", but I actually have no idea how far perf can be
used given that I'm mostly used to short benchmarks, typically hackbench,
perf bench sched messaging et al. Thing is I don't use it enough for my
real usecases :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-11 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-31 6:56 [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist periods (v2) Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 01/14] perf tools: Consolidate __hists__add_*entry() Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 11:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-06 5:43 ` [tip:perf/core] perf hists: " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 02/14] perf tools: Introduce struct add_entry_iter Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 12:07 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-05 7:09 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 12:09 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-05 7:16 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 03/14] perf hists: Convert hist entry functions to use struct he_stat Namhyung Kim
2013-11-04 23:45 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-11-05 7:17 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 04/14] perf hists: Add support for accumulated stat of hist entry Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 05/14] perf hists: Check if accumulated when adding a " Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 06/14] perf hists: Accumulate hist entry stat based on the callchain Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 07/14] perf tools: Update cpumode for each cumulative entry Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 12:55 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-05 7:41 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 08/14] perf report: Cache cumulative callchains Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 11:13 ` Rodrigo Campos
2013-11-01 7:07 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 14:24 ` Rodrigo Campos
2013-11-01 15:16 ` Rodrigo Campos
2013-11-01 12:29 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-01 12:57 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 09/14] perf hists: Sort hist entries by accumulated period Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 10/14] perf ui/hist: Add support to accumulated hist stat Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 11/14] perf ui/browser: " Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 12/14] perf ui/gtk: " Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 13/14] perf tools: Apply percent-limit to cumulative percentage Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 6:56 ` [PATCH 14/14] perf report: Add -g cumulative option Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 13:17 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-05 7:44 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-31 8:09 ` [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist periods (v2) Ingo Molnar
2013-11-01 6:48 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-01 9:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-11-01 9:22 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-01 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-05 7:31 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-05 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-05 9:05 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-05 11:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-06 7:56 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-06 8:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-06 9:17 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-06 11:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-06 12:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-11 12:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-11 13:08 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-11-11 13:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-11 15:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-06 15:33 ` David Ahern
2013-11-11 12:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-11 14:44 ` David Ahern
2013-11-12 12:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-11-06 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-11 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-06 12:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-11 12:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-11 13:01 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-04 13:27 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-04 13:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-04 13:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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