From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753818Ab3LRKjl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:39:41 -0500 Received: from mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.153.30]:1840 "EHLO mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751539Ab3LRKjj (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:39:39 -0500 Message-ID: <52B17B14.5030101@fb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:08:12 +0530 From: Arun Sharma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Namhyung Kim , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Namhyung Kim , LKML , Frederic Weisbecker , Jiri Olsa , Rodrigo Campos Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/18] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist periods (v3) References: <1387344086-12744-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <20131218094622.GA19240@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131218094622.GA19240@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.16.4] X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe X-FB-Internal: Safe X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.11.87,1.0.14,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-12-18_03:2013-12-17,2013-12-18,1970-01-01 signatures=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/18/13 3:16 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > My main complaint that any variation of 'cumulative' or 'cumulate' is > a tongue-twister to users. I certainly won't be able to remember it > and will have to call up the manpage every time I use it - which will > be very annoying. I'd probably not use the feature much. I can remember it, mainly because it's such an unusual word :) Agree that we could use something simpler/easier to remember. My other user space projects have been keeping me busy. But still very interested in this feature. Will test this patch series over the holidays. -Arun