linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist periods (v2)

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Date:	Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:27:38 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@...g.com.ar>,
	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate hist
 periods (v2)

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:48:37PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:09:32 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> When the -g cumulative option is given, it'll be shown like this:
> >> 
> >>   $ perf report -g cumulative --stdio
> >> 
> >>   # Overhead  Overhead (Acc)  Command      Shared Object                   Symbol
> >>   # ........  ..............  .......  .................  .......................
> >>   #
> >>        0.00%          88.29%      abc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __libc_start_main  
> >>        0.00%          88.29%      abc  abc                [.] main               
> >>        0.00%          88.29%      abc  abc                [.] c                  
> >>        0.00%          88.29%      abc  abc                [.] b                  
> >>       88.29%          88.29%      abc  abc                [.] a                  
> >>        0.00%          11.61%      abc  ld-2.17.so         [k] _dl_sysdep_start   
> >>        0.00%           9.43%      abc  ld-2.17.so         [.] dl_main            
> >>        9.43%           9.43%      abc  ld-2.17.so         [.] _dl_relocate_object
> >>        2.27%           2.27%      abc  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] page_fault         
> >>        0.00%           2.18%      abc  ld-2.17.so         [k] _dl_start_user     
> >>        0.00%           0.10%      abc  ld-2.17.so         [.] _start             
> >> 
> >> As you can see __libc_start_main -> main -> c -> b -> a callchain 
> >> show up in the output.
> >
> > This looks really useful!
> 
> Thanks! :)
> 
> >
> > A couple of details:
> >
> > 1)
> >
> > This is pretty close to SysProf output, right? So why not use the 
> > well-known SysProf naming and call the first column 'self' and the 
> > second column 'total'? I think those names are pretty intuitive and 
> > it would help people who come from SysProf over to perf.
> 
> Okay, I can do it. (Although sysprof seems to call it 'cumulative'
> rather than 'total' - but I think the 'total' is better since it's
> simpler and shorter.)

OTOH cumulative probably express better what it is about. Or branch cumulative
may be.

Total is confusing because we don't know against what it is.
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