Re: [PATCH 13/37] perf tools: Use thread__comm_time() when adding hist entries

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 04:15:09PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

>  
>  			he = __hists__add_entry(hists, &al, NULL,
> -						NULL, NULL, 1, 1, 0, true);
> +						NULL, NULL, 1, 1, 0, -1, true);
>  			if (he == NULL)
>  				goto out;
>  
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> index 9314286ed25c..d322264bac22 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> @@ -451,11 +451,11 @@ struct hist_entry *__hists__add_entry(struct hists *hists,
>  				      struct branch_info *bi,
>  				      struct mem_info *mi,
>  				      u64 period, u64 weight, u64 transaction,
> -				      bool sample_self)
> +				      u64 timestamp, bool sample_self)
>  {
>  	struct hist_entry entry = {
>  		.thread	= al->thread,
> -		.comm = thread__comm(al->thread),
> +		.comm = thread__comm_time(al->thread, timestamp),

with thread object having multiple comm entries, could this hurt
the single threaded performance?

The thread__comm_time function iterates comm_list each time,
maybe you could add some 'last_comm found check' logic in it?

jirka