Re: [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Jun 26 2020 - 17:58:03 EST
> The name could be a metric or an event, the logic for each is quite
I would say collisions are unlikely. Event names follow quite structured
patterns.
> different. You could look up an event and when it fails assume it was
> a metric, but I like the simplicity of this approach.
I don't think it's simpler for the user.
> Maybe this
> change could be adopted more widely with something like "perf stat -e
> metric:IPC -a -I 1000" rather than the current "perf stat -M IPC -a -I
> 1000".
I thought about just adding metrics to -e, without metric: of course.
-Andi