Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf, tool: Add new event group management

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Mar 21 2012 - 11:12:15 EST


Em Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:44:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > If so, we need some option like:
> >
> > perf record -e "{cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references}:1"
> >
> > to mean, only sample on cpu-clock but use PERF_SAMPLE_READ and
> > PERF_FORMAT_GROUP to read all siblings on every cpu-clock sample.
> >
> > Now the disadvantage is that {} needs quotes on bash, the advantage is
> > that its completely natural on how to construct groups, without weird
> > --group/--group parsed. Also it provides a place for group modifiers.
>
> how about '=group' keyword followed by ':' modifier
> perf record -e "cpu-clock,cache-misses,cache-references=group:1"
>
> or '=$groupname' and use the group name in output like
> perf stat -e "task-clock,context-switches=krava:1" ls
>
> Performance counter stats for 'ls':
>
> 1.003695 task-clock/krava # 0.083 CPUs utilized
> 0 context-switches/krava # 0.000 K/sec
>

Humm, interesting, perhaps putting the group name before the =event_list
will be more intuitive?

I.e.:

perf stat -e "krava=task-clock,context-switches:1" ls

- Arnaldo
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