linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf report: Add --percentage option

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Message-ID: <87zjmy2ryj.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:07:00 -0800
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf report: Add --percentage option

Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> writes:
>  
> +--percentage::
> +	Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered
> entries.

This should describe also what a "filtered entry" exactly is. It's not clear
even to me.

-Andi

> +	"relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
> +	sum of shown entries will be always 100%.  "absolute" means it retains
> +	original value before and after the filter applied.
> +

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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