Re: [PATCH] perf: make perf.data more self-descriptive (v5)

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Sep 23 2011 - 05:17:22 EST


On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Well, sure but it blocks rest of the interesting information too. It seems to me
>> that the CPU information could be truncated to some sane limit by default and
>> introduce a command line option for users that really want to see all of it.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, so here is a proposal:
> - reorder the info so one liners appear first
> - display the "truncated" info by default (no option)
> - truncated: numa topo, cpu topo, stop after 4 cpus/nodes, print msg
> to hint at -I option
> - use -I to print the extended header info report
>
> That way we do no introduce two options just for the header information.
>
> How about that instead?

Yup, makes sense to me. Up to perf maintainers, of course.

Pekka
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