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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	acme@ghostprotocols.net, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf sched: Introduce timehist command - v2
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 07:28:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529C990E.8000303@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871u1vptty.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com>

On 12/2/13, 12:58 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>             time cpu  task name[tid/pid]    b/n time sch delay  run time
>>    ------------- ---- -------------------- --------- --------- ---------
>>     79371.874569 [11] gcc[31949]               0.014     0.000     1.148
>>     79371.874591 [10] gcc[31951]               0.000     0.000     0.024
>>     79371.874603 [10] migration/10[59]         3.350     0.004     0.011
>>     79371.874604 [11] <idle>                   1.148     0.000     0.035
>>     79371.874723 [05] <idle>                   0.016     0.000     1.383
>>     79371.874746 [05] gcc[31949]               0.153     0.078     0.022
>> ...
>>
>> Times are in msec.usec.
>
> Hmm.. I'm not sure this is right.  It probably confuse users since
> timehist_time_str() still uses "sec.usec" format and it looks not
> natural for me to use "msec".
>
> Yeah, I see perf stat uses "msec.usec" for result of clock events but
> AFAICT it also shows the unit explicitly.  And perf stat -I uses
> "sec.nsec" format and perf script also uses "sec.usec" format so there's
> a little consistency here.
>
> I think this "msec.usec" format fits well for the scheduling events but
> in general "sec.usec" format looks better IMHO.

Arnaldo / Ingo: any thoughts on the units here? sec.usec versus msec.usec?

David


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-02 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-02  0:23 [PATCH 0/2] perf: sched timehist command - v2 David Ahern
2013-12-02  0:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf sched: Introduce " David Ahern
2013-12-02  7:58   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-12-02 14:28     ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-12-02  9:33   ` Pekka Enberg
2013-12-02 14:33     ` David Ahern
2013-12-02 16:19     ` David Ahern
2013-12-02  0:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf sched: Add documentation for timehist options David Ahern
2013-12-02  6:07   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-12-02 12:38     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-02  7:41   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-12-02 14:37     ` David Ahern

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