* Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 08:04:11PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > As the --children option changes the output of perf report (and perf
> > > top) it sometimes confuses users. Add more words and examples to help
> > > understanding of the option's behavior - and how to disable it ;-).
> >
> > Nice! :-)
>
> Thanks! :)
>
> >
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/overhead.txt
> >
> > As some people might stumble upon this the old fashioned way, by
> > looking around in 'Documentation/', I'm wondering how this file name
> > will tell the reader that this is about call chains? (which isn't the
> > default recording mode) Maybe name it more explicitly, like
> > callchain-overhead.txt?
>
> OK. But I'd rather name it 'overhead-calculation.txt' to align with
> the section name. And 'callchain-overhead' makes me thinking about
> the overhead of processing callchains at record or report time.
Sure!
> > s/perfconfig/.perfconfig
> >
> > ?
>
> It seems we can have a system-wide /etc/perfconfig too. How about
> 'the perf config file' instead?
Yeah.
Thanks,
Ingo
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