Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/15] perf report: Add support to accumulate histperiods

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 05:01:09 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 15:59 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> > Yes, the callchain part needs to be improved. Peter's idea
> > indeed looks good to me too.
>
> FWIW, I think this is exactly what sysprof does, except that
> tool isn't usable for other reasons.. You might want to look
> at it though.

I always found the fundamental sysprof system-wide call graph
profiling output/view superior - and so do many Xorg developers
who are using SysProf that I talked to - so I'd strongly
encourage to use that ordering and grouping for the default perf
call-graph profiling output/view.

Thanks,

Ingo
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