Re: [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric

[Andi Kleen]

> The name could be a metric or an event, the logic for each is quite

I would say collisions are unlikely. Event names follow quite structured
patterns.

> different. You could look up an event and when it fails assume it was
> a metric, but I like the simplicity of this approach.

I don't think it's simpler for the user.

> Maybe this
> change could be adopted more widely with something like "perf stat -e
> metric:IPC -a -I 1000" rather than the current "perf stat -M IPC -a -I
> 1000".

I thought about just adding metrics to -e, without metric: of course.

-Andi