From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:38:50 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131202193850.GC17149@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529CDEA6.8000807@gmail.com>
Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:25:26PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 12/2/13, 12:23 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:38:20PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> >>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 :-)
> I thought -t/--time is going to be used to specify a time interval?
> Collect data for N-seconds, analyze some middle M-seconds.
Can you suggest a better name for the option being discussed?
Perhaps one of:
--show-event-time
--event-time
?
As a policy I think we should go on adding just long options and only
after there is a really strong case we should use a short option for
really, really popular options.
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-02 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-02 19:23 [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-02 19:25 ` David Ahern
2013-12-02 19:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2013-12-02 19:58 ` David Ahern
2013-12-02 20:17 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-02 20:22 ` David Ahern
2013-12-04 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-04 12:57 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-02 6:53 [RFC 0/3] perf tools: Show time info (v1) Namhyung Kim
2013-12-02 6:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option Namhyung Kim
2013-12-02 12:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-02 14:38 ` Namhyung Kim
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