linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf: add sort by inclusive time functionality (v2)

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Message-ID: <4F5E554C.4060209@fb.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:58:04 -0700
From:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	<linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf: add sort by inclusive time functionality (v2)

On 3/12/12 11:21 AM, Arun Sharma wrote:

>>
>> BTW, I don't like the name 'inclusive' as a sort key. If it cares about
>> time, IMHO, the name should contain 'time' - something like 'itime' or
>> 'inctime'?
>
> The existing sort orders: pid, comm, dso, symbol, parent -- all care
> about time, but none of them have time in their name?

I'll take that back. What they sort on depends on the event.

perf record -ge cache-misses
perf report -s inclusive

will sort by the number of cache-misses and not time.

  -Arun
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