Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752679Ab3C2ES6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:18:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:33117 "EHLO mail-pa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751176Ab3C2ES5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:18:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:18:48 +0900 From: Namhyung Kim To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Roberto Vitillo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, paulus@samba.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@ghostprotocols.net Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: add callgrind conversion tool Message-ID: <20130329041848.GA27063@danjae> References: <20130328235829.GA22981@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130328235829.GA22981@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 20 On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:58:30PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > 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 ? Maybe we can support converting to CTF or someother formats which have nice viewer? Thanks, Namhyung -- 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/