Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf hists: Link hist entries before inserting to anoutput tree

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 11:25:47 EST


On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 12:09:39AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> For matching and/or linking hist entries, they need to be sorted by
> given sort keys. However current hists__match/link did this on the
> output trees, so that the entries in the output tree need to be resort
> before doing it.
>
> This looks not so good since we have trees for collecting or
> collapsing entries before passing them to an output tree and they're
> already sorted by the given sort keys. Since we don't need to print
> anything at the time of matching/linking, we can use these internal
> trees directly instead of bothering with double resort on the output
> tree.

this patch also makes diff working over collapsed entries,
which was not possible before.. nice ;)

outputs like:

[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf diff -s comm
# Event 'cycles:u'
#
# Baseline Delta Command
# ........ ....... ...............
#
5.24% +68.96% firefox
2.34% +5.66% X
48.51% -41.53% mocp
14.98% -11.53% skype
18.01% -15.35% plugin-containe
1.03% +1.48% xchat
5.54% -4.61% gkrellm
1.41% -0.93% xterm
+0.33% xmonad-x86_64-l
+0.23% vim
+0.07% xscreensaver
0.19% -0.14% swapper
1.00% -0.97% NetworkManager
0.28% -0.25% ssh
0.11% -0.09% sleep
0.84% -0.83% dbus-daemon
0.02% -0.01% perf
0.40% -0.40% wpa_supplicant
0.05% -0.05% gpm
0.04% -0.04% crond


small nitpick below, otherwise

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>


>
> Its only user - at the time of this writing - perf diff can be easily
> converted to use the internal tree and can save some lines too by
> getting rid of unnecessary resorting codes.
>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-diff.c | 65 ++++++++++++---------------------------------
> tools/perf/util/hist.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
> index b2e7d39f099b..044ad99dcc90 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
> @@ -275,43 +275,6 @@ static struct perf_tool tool = {
> return NULL;A

SNIP

> }
>
> -static void perf_evlist__resort_hists(struct perf_evlist *evlist, bool name)
> +static void perf_evlist__resort_hists(struct perf_evlist *evlist)

this could be called 'perf_evlist__collapse_resort' now

> {
> struct perf_evsel *evsel;
>
> list_for_each_entry(evsel, &evlist->entries, node) {
> struct hists *hists = &evsel->hists;
>
> - hists__output_resort(hists);
> -
> - if (name)
> - hists__name_resort(hists);
> + hists__collapse_resort(hists);
> }
> }

SNIP
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