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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:55:46 +0100
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Vinson Lee <vlee@...tter.com>,
	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>, acme@...stprotocols.net,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/21] perf/core improvements and fixes

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:10:52AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> On Fri,  9 Nov 2012 18:42:49 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Hi Ingo,
> >
> > 	Please consider pulling.
> >
> > - Arnaldo
> >
> > The following changes since commit 8dfec403e39b7c37fd6e8813bacc01da1e1210ab:
> >
> >   perf tests: Removing 'optional' field (2012-11-05 14:03:59 -0300)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux tags/perf-core-for-mingo
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 27f94d52394003d444a383eaf8d4824daf32432e:
> >
> >   tools lib traceevent: Use 'const' in variables pointing to const strings (2012-11-09 17:42:47 -0300)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > perf/core improvements and fixes:
> >
> > . Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
> >   buckets for all the entries in all the hists.  This new method
> >   is now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the 'baseline'
> >   column be 100%, eliminating blind spots. Now we need to use this
> >   for 'diff' with > 2 perf.data files and for multi event 'report' and
> >   'annotate'.
> 
> I'm not sure it can be used for group report at least in its current
> form.  IIUC it connects multiple hist entries using a list head and
> create a dummy entry in the leader if need be.  But it didn't handle
> non-leader entries so it's hard to tell which is which if less entries
> are present only.  For example consider following case:
> 
> 	leader		member1		member2
> 	A		A		A
> 	B
> 			C
> 					D
> 
> where leader, member1 and member2 are evsel/hists and A, B, C and D are
> hist entries.  After 'linking' the entries the leader will have
> following linkage:
> 
> 	leader
> 	A	->	A	->	A
> 	B
> 	C (dummy) ->	C
> 	D (dummy)		->	D
> 
> In this case, for entry A the leader can determine which entry came from
> which hists by looking its order in the list.  For entry B the leader
> can use zero value for them since the list is empty.  However for
> entries C and D, it cannot know which one is the right hists unless it
> records a hist index or creates dummy entry and insert it in a correct
> order (looks far from an optimal solution).  Am I missing something?

there's hists pointer in hist_entry if that's what you look for

jirka
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