Re: [PATCH 2/5] perf,tools: Support new sort type --socket

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 08:06:21PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 07:52:55PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 07:41:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > Em Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 10:45:43AM -0400, kan.liang@intel.com escreveu:
> > > > From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > This patch enable perf report to sort by processor socket
> > > > 
> > > > $ perf report --stdio --sort socket,comm,dso,symbol
> > > >  # To display the perf.data header info, please use
> > > >  --header/--header-only options.
> > > >  #
> > > >  #
> > > >  # Total Lost Samples: 0
> > > >  #
> > > >  # Samples: 686  of event 'cycles'
> > > >  # Event count (approx.): 349215462
> > > >  #
> > > >  # Overhead  SOCKET  Command    Shared Object     Symbol
> > > >  # ........  ......  .........  ................
> > > >  .................................
> > > 
> > > So this works in 'perf top' only for the first screen rendering, when it
> > > refreshes we lose the "SOCKET" header (why all caps?) and the colum
> > > stops being %03d and instead becomes %d, I am checking now.
> > 
> > Patch below fix this, but we stumble in another problem, when zooming it
> > is not eliding the SOCKET column, i.e. if we're zooming into a column,
> > it will have the same value for all entries, no use in showing it, save
> > some columns, will check that as well.
> > 
> > Will fold the fixes to the patches where the problems were introduced,
> > the feature is cool, one more zoom! :-)
> 
> One more fixed, see below, now we have another, using ESC should remove
> the last applied Zoom operation, just like for the other Zoom operations
> (DSO, thread, etc), looking at that now.

Fixed, see below, to test, press S, then d to zoom into Socket then DSO
and then press ESC to unzoom one level (the DSO in this case) then ESC
again, to unzoom the Socket one.

If you use the left arrow key it will be equivalent to ESC, but we'll
repurpose the left/right arrows for horizontal scrolling soon.

- Arnaldo