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

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:25:43 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> 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>

Thanks!

>
>
>> 
>> 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

Will change in the next spin.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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