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Subject: Re: [RFC 06/13] perf kwork: Implement perf kwork report
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Hello,

On 2022/6/15 5:49, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:48 AM Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> Implements framework of perf kwork report, which is used to report time
>> properties such as run time and frequency:
>>
>> test case:
>>
>>    Kwork Name                | Cpu  | Avg delay     | Frequency | Max delay     | Max delay start     | Max delay end       |
>>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Since there are no report supported events, the output is empty.
>>
>> Briefly describe the data structure:
>> 1. "class" indicates event type. For example, irq and softiq correspond
>> to different types.
>> 2. "cluster" refers to a specific event corresponding to a type. For
>> example, RCU and TIMER in softirq correspond to different clusters,
>> which contains three types of events: raise, entry, and exit.
> 
> I'm not good at naming but how about calling it "work" instead?
> It's all about kernel works anyway..
> 
How about calling it "work_atoms" ?
Otherwise, "work" feels a little similar to kwork_class in the first step.

Thanks,
Jihong

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