Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist periods (v2)

Frederic Weisbecker
2013-11-11T13:01:33Z

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:12:12PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I'm not sure why you want to add a new -F that adds news way to display
> > fields. Isn't -s enough for that?
>
> Well, -s implies sorting.
>
> With -F we could decouple sorting from display order, and allow output
> like:
>
> # Symbol Command Shared Object Overhead
>
> Where we still sort by 'overhead', yet display things by having 'overhead'
> last.
>
> So basically have maximum flexibility of output and sorting - into which
> the new 'total' field for accumulated stats would fit automatically.

Ok, I haven't followed the details on why we want this to display the cumulated
overhead.

But reordering the columns should be ok as long as we have the same fields present in -F and -s.