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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] perf sched timehist: Split is_idle_sample()
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 10:26:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207012644.GA17879@sejong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06f40aab-8f66-e727-3a37-3f2657f6bba6@gmail.com>

Hi David,

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 07:57:43PM -0800, David Ahern wrote:
> On 12/5/16 7:40 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > The is_idle_sample() function actually does more than determining
> > whether sample come from idle task.  Split the callchain part into
> > save_task_callchain() to make it clearer.  Also checking prev_pid from
> > trace data looks unnecessary since it should be always same as
> > sample->pid.
> 
> The timehist command is 3-4 years old now, and over that time it has
> been used on a variety of OS'es -- RHEL6, WRL5, WRL6, various Fedora
> and debian releases, etc. 
> 
> The idle_sample checks were added for a reason. Given the range of
> kernels that have sched tracepoints I'd be wary of just removing it
> regardless of how silly it seems against top of tree kernels.

Hmm.. ok.  Maybe I need to add a comment.

What do you think about moving callchain part then?

Thanks,
Namhyung

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-06  3:40 [PATCHSET 00/10] perf sched timehist: Introduce --idle-hist option (v1) Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] perf sched: Cleanup option processing Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:58   ` David Ahern
2016-12-07 18:24   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 02/10] perf tools: Introduce callchain_cursor__copy() Namhyung Kim
2016-12-07 18:25   ` [tip:perf/core] perf callchain: " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 03/10] perf sched timehist: Handle zero sample->tid properly Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:52   ` David Ahern
2016-12-06  3:59     ` Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  4:01       ` David Ahern
2016-12-07  2:06     ` Namhyung Kim
2016-12-08 14:19       ` Namhyung Kim
2016-12-07 18:25   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 04/10] perf sched timehist: Split is_idle_sample() Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:57   ` David Ahern
2016-12-07  1:26     ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 05/10] perf sched timehist: Cleanup idle_max_cpu handling Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  4:00   ` David Ahern
2016-12-07 18:26   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] perf sched timehist: Introduce struct idle_time_data Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  4:07   ` David Ahern
2016-12-07  2:12     ` Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 07/10] perf sched timehist: Save callchain when entering idle Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 08/10] perf sched timehist: Skip non-idle events when necessary Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 09/10] perf sched timehist: Add -I/--idle-hist option Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06  3:40 ` [PATCH 10/10] perf sched timehist: Show callchains for idle stat Namhyung Kim
2016-12-06 19:44 ` [PATCHSET 00/10] perf sched timehist: Introduce --idle-hist option (v1) Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-12-06 21:31   ` David Ahern

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