Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/14] perf report: Add support to accumulate histperiods (v2)

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:12:12PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I'm not sure why you want to add a new -F that adds news way to display 
> > fields. Isn't -s enough for that?
> 
> Well, -s implies sorting.
> 
> With -F we could decouple sorting from display order, and allow output 
> like:
> 
>   # Symbol   Command    Shared Object   Overhead
> 
> Where we still sort by 'overhead', yet display things by having 'overhead' 
> last.
> 
> So basically have maximum flexibility of output and sorting - into which 
> the new 'total' field for accumulated stats would fit automatically.

Ok, I haven't followed the details on why we want this to display the cumulated
overhead.

But reordering the columns should be ok as long as we have the same fields present in -F and -s.
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