Re: [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric

[Jiri Olsa]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 09:48:21AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > > 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.
> 
> And when introducing a new metric the build process can detect that
> clash and fail.
>  
> > > 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.
> 
> Agreed.
>  
> > > 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.
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 

I guess I wanted to clearly separate other metrics from the expression,
also running through the whole lists of metrics for each id did not
seem good.. but it's actualy not that bad (compared to other things we
do ;-), and if you guys prefer not using a prefix I think it's ok

thanks,
jirka