Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf kvm: option to print events that exceed a threshold

From: David Ahern
Date: Wed Aug 07 2013 - 16:24:30 EST


On 8/7/13 3:27 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:41:36PM -0400, David Ahern escreveu:
This is useful to spot high latency blips. It is normal for HLT
reasons to have long exit times, so strip those from the threshold
check.

So 'perf trace' has a similar option:

[acme@zoo linux]$ perf trace --help
<SNIP>
--duration <float>
show only events with duration > N.M ms
<SNIP>

While you used:

+ OPT_U64('T', "threshold", &kvm->threshold,
+ "show events other than HALT that take longer than threshold usecs"),

I prefer 'duration', and haven't assigned a single letter to it, they
are scarce and we have shell long option completion, what do you think?

The term was chosen, for 'perf trace' on the original patchset:

http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/

- Arnaldo


No preference really. I need to send out an update to the man page. I can update this patch as well and re-send.

David
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