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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/16] perf callchain: Switch default to 'graph,0.5,caller'
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:06:51AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:19:50PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker escreveu:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:00:34AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Em Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:16:53PM -0700, Brendan Gregg escreveu:
> > > So are you advocating different defaults, one for --stdio (callee),
> > > another for --tui, --gtk (caller)?
>
> > > This is all configurable via ~/.perfconfig :-\
>
> > > Indeed, finding a default that is deemed adequate for most people is,
> > > ho-hum, difficult 8-)
>
> > Most uses I've seen on LKML by the past involved callee because people
> > mostly look at the precise point where a performance issue is.
>
> A good chunk of that was because that was the default?

I doubt it. When you need to find the culprit of a syscall of IRQ performance issue,
you don't care much to see __libc_start_main() / main() on the top of your callchain.

>
> > IMHO changing that order is not a good idea. Unless many users complained
> > about it.
>
> Perhaps there are not that many users of callchains because the default
> is not what they're used to see?
>
> Motivation for the change came from a video from Chandler, that
> resurfaced the callchain default issue, Chandler?
>
> Anedoctally, he tweeted about it and people seemed to like it.

Well, I would prefer to hear from regular users than random twitter followers.
I could be wrong so lets ask some users first.


> > > Ingo, what do you think?
>
> What about providing a hotkey, in the tui, to toggle caller/callee
> views, and another hotkey to save that in ~/.perfconfig so that becomes
> the new default?

That means rebuilding the whole tree, it might be costly and events need to
be processed again.

>
> In the --stdio mode we need to add a warning in the first lines,
> something like:
>
> # This is caller (or callee) based, please use --callchain ... to change it
>
> One way or the other people will disagree, so making it easy to switch
> to the preferred way would be nice to have?

Agreed.

Thanks!


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