Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>]

Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:38:20PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> 2013-12-02 (월), 09:33 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> > Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:53:19PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > > From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> > > 
> > > The --show-time-info option is for displaying elapsed sampling time
> > 
> > Isn't that too long? Can't we use just --time/-t?
> 
> Hmm.. interesting.  Your previous feedback was to use longer and clearer
> option name. :)

> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/18/198
 
Hey, longer and more descriptive names _when required_, in that case I
thought that even being longer --show-task-events would be better, but
here using --show-time-info the 'info' part looks superfluous, at least
to me, hence my suggestion/question :-)

<SNIP>

> > > +++ b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
> > > @@ -7,19 +7,24 @@
> > >  #include "../util/evsel.h"
> > >  
> > >  /* hist period print (hpp) functions */
> > > +enum hpp_fmt_type {
> > > +	HPP_FMT__PERCENT,
> > > +	HPP_FMT__RAW,
> > > +	HPP_FMT__TIME,
> > > +};
> > 
> > I wonder if we can't make this a bitmask... Does it make sense to print
> > both percent and time, for instance?
> 
> I'm not sure I understood you correctly, but did you mean printing both
> percent and time in a single column?  This enum and the __hpp_fmt()
> function is for a single column.  I can add a new column for time
> percent if you want.

I have not delved into the code, it was just a first impression, lemme
do that now...
 
- Arnaldo