linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] perf stat: add perf stat -B to pretty print large numbers

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Message-ID: <20100519062832.GB21294@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 08:28:32 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] perf stat: add perf stat -B to pretty print large
 numbers


* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org> wrote:

> From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
> 
> It is hard to read very large numbers so provide an 
> option to perf stat to separate thousands using a 
> separator. The patch leverages the locale support of 
> stdio. You need to set your LC_NUMERIC appropriately, 
> for instance LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF8. You need to pass -B 
> to activate this feature. This way existing scripts 
> parsing the output do not need to be changed. Here is an 
> example.

I've pulled it, but IMO we should go one step further: 
this feature should be made unconditional. The current 
numbers displayed by perf stat are often human-unreadable.

scripts should not parse pretty-printed output.

We used to have something like that, in the form of:

  perf record --no-samples --stat -e cycles -e instructions -a sleep 1
  perf report -n -t :

But the Newt changes broke this stat-only recording mode. 
Furthermore, there should be a --raw kind out output mode 
for perf stat as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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