Re: [PATCH 13/37] perf tools: Use thread__comm_time() when adding hist entries

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Dec 25 2014 - 17:54:25 EST


On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 04:15:09PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

>
> he = __hists__add_entry(hists, &al, NULL,
> - NULL, NULL, 1, 1, 0, true);
> + NULL, NULL, 1, 1, 0, -1, true);
> if (he == NULL)
> goto out;
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> index 9314286ed25c..d322264bac22 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> @@ -451,11 +451,11 @@ struct hist_entry *__hists__add_entry(struct hists *hists,
> struct branch_info *bi,
> struct mem_info *mi,
> u64 period, u64 weight, u64 transaction,
> - bool sample_self)
> + u64 timestamp, bool sample_self)
> {
> struct hist_entry entry = {
> .thread = al->thread,
> - .comm = thread__comm(al->thread),
> + .comm = thread__comm_time(al->thread, timestamp),

with thread object having multiple comm entries, could this hurt
the single threaded performance?

The thread__comm_time function iterates comm_list each time,
maybe you could add some 'last_comm found check' logic in it?

jirka
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