From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>, Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Moinuddin Quadri <moin18@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/17] perf tools: Add support for hierachy view (v2)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:11:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160120011100.GA31686@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160120005647.GC18796@sejong>
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 09:56:47AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:24:49PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:12:04PM +0100, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > > > > Now we only need a better percent-limit that handles all
> > > > > leaves correctly...
> > > >
> > > > Hmm.. could you tell me where the percent-limit doesn't work
> > > > correctly?
> > >
> > > It doesn't work well together with call chains.
> >
> > Ok, that is the missing piece of info, lemme check... Yeah that seems
> > to be the case.
>
> So technically this is a callchain issue not a hist entry, right? If
Correct.
> so, it should be fixed separately. Currently --percent-limit option
> works only for hist entries, and for callchain, users should use
> -g/--call-graph option. With hierarchy report, we might consider
> merging them since it provides continuous interface to callchains..
Ideally it should work all modes, not just hierarchy.
>
> >
> > > It only considers the hits on the leaf function, but doesn't hide
> > > the individual call chains leading to that function which are below
> > > the limit.
> > >
> > > So if you have a lot of different cold callers you still end up
> > > with far too much output.
>
> Could you please be more specific? Let me try with an example..
>
> $ perf report
> ...
> + 1.00% perf perf some_function
> some_function
> - common_caller
> - 0.6% caller1
> + 0.4% caller1_1
> + 0.2% caller1_2
> + 0.3% caller2
> + 0.1% caller3
>
> In this case, do you want this?
>
> $ perf report --percent-limit 0.5
> ...
> + 1.00% perf perf some_function
> some_function
> - common_caller
> - 0.6% caller1
Right. Only call chains whose total percentage is larger than the limit.
>
>
> > >
> > > Also would be nice to be able to set it dynamically from the UI.
> >
> > To set the mim percent? Yeah, we need to allow setting all those knobs
> > from the UI.
> >
> > I.e. should be like when we press '/' to set a substring filter.
>
> Yes, how about 'L' key for limit?
Fine for me.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-16 16:03 [RFC/PATCHSET 00/17] perf tools: Add support for hierachy view (v2) Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 01/17] perf hists: Basic support of hierarchical report view Namhyung Kim
2016-01-17 16:15 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-19 10:51 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-19 16:50 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 17:00 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-20 17:09 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-21 4:08 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 10:43 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-21 12:55 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 13:35 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-21 14:02 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-22 10:44 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-22 10:43 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-22 11:37 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-21 11:35 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-21 13:01 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 02/17] perf hists: Resort hist entries with hierarchy Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 11:41 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-01-21 13:03 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 03/17] perf hists: Add helper functions for hierarchy mode Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 22:19 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-21 3:59 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 4:19 ` [PATCH v2 " Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 13:05 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 04/17] perf hists: Cleanup filtering functions Namhyung Kim
2016-01-19 20:39 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 1:15 ` [PATCH v2 04.1/17] perf hists: Remove parent filter check in DSO filter function Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 1:15 ` [PATCH v2 04.2/17] perf hists: Cleanup filtering functions Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 12:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-02-03 10:08 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 12:02 ` [PATCH v2 04.1/17] perf hists: Remove parent filter check in DSO filter function Jiri Olsa
2016-02-03 10:07 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 05/17] perf hists: Support filtering in hierarchy mode Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 06/17] perf ui/stdio: Implement hierarchy output mode Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 07/17] perf ui/stdio: Align column header for hierarchy output Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 22:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-21 4:00 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 08/17] perf hists browser: Fix context menu item Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 0:52 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-21 4:07 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 23:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-22 11:08 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-22 14:37 ` Dynamicly add/remove sort keys was: " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-03 10:10 ` [tip:perf/core] perf sort: Provide a way to find out if per-thread bucketing is in place tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-02-03 10:11 ` [tip:perf/core] perf hists browser: Only 'Zoom into thread' only when sort order has 'pid' tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-02-03 10:11 ` [tip:perf/core] perf hists browser: Only offer symbol scripting when a symbol is under the cursor tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-02-03 10:11 ` [tip:perf/core] perf hists browser: Offer 'Zoom into DSO'/' Map details' only when sort order has 'dso' tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-02-03 10:12 ` [tip:perf/core] perf hists browser: Be a bit more strict about presenting CPU socket zoom tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-02-03 10:12 ` [tip:perf/core] perf hists browser: Offer non-symbol specific menu options for --sort without 'sym' tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 09/17] perf hists browser: Count number of hierarchy entries Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 10/17] perf hists browser: Support collapsing/expanding whole entries in hierarchy Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 11/17] perf hists browser: Factor out hist_browser__show_callchain() Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 12/17] perf hists browser: Implement hierarchy output Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 13/17] perf hists browser: Align column header in hierarchy mode Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 14/17] perf ui/gtk: Implement hierarchy output mode Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 15/17] perf report: Add --hierarchy option Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 16/17] perf hists: Support decaying in hierarchy mode Namhyung Kim
2016-01-16 16:03 ` [PATCH 17/17] perf top: Add --hierarchy option Namhyung Kim
2016-01-17 10:25 ` [RFC/PATCHSET 00/17] perf tools: Add support for hierachy view (v2) Pekka Enberg
2016-01-19 10:42 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-17 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2016-01-19 10:45 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-19 21:03 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-19 21:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-19 22:12 ` Andi Kleen
2016-01-19 22:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 0:56 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 1:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-01-20 1:36 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 1:43 ` Andi Kleen
2016-01-20 13:34 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-19 20:00 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-19 20:52 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 0:19 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-19 20:59 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 0:34 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 5:28 ` Andi Kleen
2016-01-20 7:49 ` Taeung Song
2016-01-20 15:08 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 16:34 ` Taeung Song
2016-01-21 4:17 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-21 4:58 ` Taeung Song
2016-01-20 13:32 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 15:01 ` Namhyung Kim
2016-01-20 15:25 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-20 15:29 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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