Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752590Ab1CJGsb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:48:31 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:39171 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752436Ab1CJGs3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:48:29 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:48:16 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Sam Liao , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, Peter Zijlstra , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add inverted call graph report support to perf tool Message-ID: <20110310064816.GF9289@elte.hu> References: <20110307180619.GG1873@nowhere> <20110310024355.GG2533@nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110310024355.GG2533@nowhere> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 20 * Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > But your idea of turning the callee into the caller would show us a very global > profiling. With reverse callchains it can be a very nice overview of the big > picture. Very much agreed - i think that matches the sysprof display structure as well, right? This could then be propagated not just into perf report but perf top --tui as well. Thanks, Ingo -- 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/