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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:51:22 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add inverted call graph report support to perf tool
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:48:16AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> 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?

Yeah indeed, IIRC.
 
> This could then be propagated not just into perf report but perf top --tui as well.

Probably yeah. Are callchains already supported by perf top?
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