Re: [PATCH 5/6] perf tools: Add dynamic sort key for tracepoint events

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Tue Dec 15 2015 - 07:07:50 EST


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:53:09AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:46:12AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> >
> > $ perf report -s comm,sched:sched_switch.next_pid,sched:sched_switch.next_comm --stdio
> > ...
> > # Overhead Command next_pid next_comm
> > # ........ ............... .......... ................
> > #
> > 20.86% swapper 17773 transmission-gt
> > 9.64% transmission-gt 0 swapper/0
> > 9.16% transmission-gt 0 swapper/2
> > 5.25% swapper 109 kworker/0:1H
> > 5.21% kworker/0:1H 0 swapper/0
> > 2.14% netctl-auto 0 swapper/2
> > 1.98% netctl-auto 0 swapper/0
> > 1.98% swapper 6524 Xephyr
> > 1.98% swapper 27478 netctl-auto
> > 1.78% transmission-gt 0 swapper/3
> > 1.53% Xephyr 0 swapper/0
> > 1.29% netctl-auto 0 swapper/1
> > 1.29% swapper 27476 netctl-auto
> > 1.21% netctl-auto 0 swapper/3
> > 1.17% swapper 233 irq/33-iwlwifi
> >
> > Note that pid 0 exists for each cpu so have comm of 'swapper/N'.
>
> could we also add by default all tracepoint fields in case none
> is specified and the event to display is tracepoint?

Seems like a good suggestion. We can check if there's only one
tracepoint event, then use dynamic sort keys for all fields. But I
think we should skip common fields in that case.

>
> also an extra field that would hold/show the 'print fmt' display ?

Do you want a single extra field per event or per field?

Thanks,
Namhyung
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