Re: [PATCH] Add inverted call graph report support to perf tool

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Mar 11 2011 - 05:58:12 EST


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:48:16AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> 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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