On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:31:26PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:50:42PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > SNIP > > > | > > | - to blindly follow some poorly constructed vendor format with no > > | high level structure, that IMHO didn't work very well when OProfile > > | was written, and misrepresenting it as 'symbolic event names'. > > | > > | Take a look at: > > | > > | https://download.01.org/perfmon/HSW/Haswell_core_V17.json > > | > > | and weep. > > > > Evil vendor formats, but to be fair, here is what _we_ have today: > > > > perf stat -e r10068,r20036,r40060,r40ac sleep 1 > > hum, you could also use the 'cpu/event=.../' syntax right?
That's even worse -- same hex numbers, just more redundancy. All the other profilers support symbolic names, which is what users want. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
