Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754007Ab3C1X7F (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:59:05 -0400 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:56626 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753435Ab3C1X7C (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:59:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:58:30 -0700 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: Roberto Vitillo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, paulus@samba.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@ghostprotocols.net, namhyung@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool Message-ID: <20130328235829.GA22981@us.ibm.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13032823-3620-0000-0000-000001D1300C Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 18 Roberto Vitillo [ravitillo@lbl.gov] wrote: | The proposed patch adds the convert tool to perf which allows to convert a | perf.data file to a set of callgrind data files which can subsequently be | displayed with kcachegrind. Sounds interesting and useful. My only comment is that 'convert' is a generic term and this is converting to a specific format (i.e callgrind). In theory we could have conversions to other formats in the future ? Any chance it could be called 'perf callgrind' ? Sukadev -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/