Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:57:59 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 00/10] perf tools: Add support to reuse metric |
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> 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
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