Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] perf report: Support sorting by a given event in group

[Jin, Yao]

On 3/19/2020 3:08 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:03:25PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:01:16PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > Em Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:36:13AM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
> > > > When performing "perf report --group", it shows the event group information
> > > > together. By default, the output is sorted by the first event in group.
> > > > It would be nice for user to select any event for sorting.
> > > >
> > > > The patch 1/3 introduces a new option "--group-sort-idx" to sort the
> > > > output by the event at the index n in event group.
> > > >
> > > > The patch 2/3 creates a new key K_RELOAD to reload the browser.
> > > >
> > > > The patch 3/3 supports hotkeys in browser to select a event to
> > > > sort.
> > >
> > > Thanks, applied.
> >
> > Doesn't work with 'perf top', should, investigating,
>
> So needs a bit of work, but is doable and would be a great addition,
> since we do support:
>
>    # perf top --group -e instructions,cycles,cache-misses
>
> And we should strive to make 'perf top' to be a perf.data-less, dynamic
> version of 'perf record + perf report'.
>
> Can you please take a look at supporting this? And that --group-sort-idx
> too,
>
> I'll push my perf/core branch after a few tests,
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Arnaldo

I will check that.

Thanks
Jin Yao