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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-04-17 10:06:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-04-17 10:06:47 +0200 |
| commit | b3d5fc3c297fd379956689dc4d7d6af077ac35c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c0882061596156ef39e17360c442aef4a64c3b6 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt | |
| parent | fbdd17ec5ce2e5e4027356fcfde769b88d15702f (diff) | |
| parent | a83edb2dfc5989fbadc594109c933bae528a2809 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Jiri Olsa:
User visible changes:
* Add --percentage option to control absolute/relative percentage output (Namhyung Kim)
Plumbing changes:
* Add --list-cmds to 'kmem', 'mem', 'lock' and 'sched', for use by completion scripts (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt index fdfceee0ffd..fbfa1192923 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt @@ -33,17 +33,20 @@ OPTIONS -d:: --dsos=:: Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands - file://filename entries. + file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage + of the Baseline/Delta column. See --percentage for more info. -C:: --comms=:: Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands - file://filename entries. + file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage + of the Baseline/Delta column. See --percentage for more info. -S:: --symbols=:: Only consider these symbols. CSV that understands - file://filename entries. + file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage + of the Baseline/Delta column. See --percentage for more info. -s:: --sort=:: @@ -89,6 +92,14 @@ OPTIONS --order:: Specify compute sorting column number. +--percentage:: + Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries. + Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options. + + "relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the + sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains + the original value before and after the filter is applied. + COMPARISON ---------- The comparison is governed by the baseline file. The baseline perf.data @@ -157,6 +168,10 @@ with: - period_percent being the % of the hist entry period value within single data file + - with filtering by -C, -d and/or -S, period_percent might be changed + relative to how entries are filtered. Use --percentage=absolute to + prevent such fluctuation. + ratio ~~~~~ If specified the 'Ratio' column is displayed with value 'r' computed as: |