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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 :)

  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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