Re: [PATCHv4 00/27] perf stat: Introduce --per-thread option

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jun 23 2015 - 11:07:09 EST


Em Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 05:08:07PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> On 23/06/15 17:05, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 08:06:00PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >>> Em Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:36:01AM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> >>>> adding the possibility to display stat data per thread.
> >
> >>>> Allowing following commands and output:
> >
> >>>> $ perf stat -e cycles,instructions --per-thread -p 30190,30242
> >
> >>> While testing Adrian's Intel PT patchkit I realised we have --per-thread
> >>> in 'record', wonder if using a long option with the exact same name but
> >>> different meanings for 'stat' and 'record' would cause confusion...
> >
> >> I think the name fits for both stat and record.. and both are doing different
> >
> > For record it is vague, for stat, it seems to fit.
> >
> > For record it really should be --mmap-per-thread, but then we start
> > getting what may seem overly long options, but then, its an oddball
> > 'record' option...
>
> It is not just the mmap, it is also the perf context. So it is central to
> the way perf works.

Ok, so probably it should stay like that :-)

- Arnaldo
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