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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] perf/annotate: Add branch stack / basic block
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Em Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:59:15AM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:43:53AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Em Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:27:33PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I've been thinking of filtering all targets and branches that are
> > > > > smaller than 0.1% in order to avoid this, but so far I've just been
> > > > > ignoring these things.
> > > >
> > > > Like so... seems to 'work'.
> > >
> > > So I merged this one with 7/7 and this is the result, screenshot to
> > > capture the colors:
> > >
> > >   http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png
> > >
> > > Please let me know if I should go ahead and push with the combined
> > > patch, that is now at:
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/commit/?h=perf/annotate_basic_blocks&id=baf41a43fa439ac534d21e41882a7858d5cee1e5
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/annotate_basic_blocks
> > >
> > > Is that ok?
> > >
> > I like the idea and yes, branch stack can be used for this, but I have
> > a hard time understanding the colored output.
> > What is the explanation for the color changes?
> > How do I interpret the percentages in the comments of the assembly:
> > -54.50% (p: 42%)
> > Why not have dedicated columns before the assembly with proper column headers?
> 
> Yes columns with headers are better. Jin Yao has been looking at this and already has
> some patches.

For --tui as well?

- Arnaldo