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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:13:25 +0100
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] perf tool: Adding ratios support
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:23:26AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:30:33PM +0000, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:13:18PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:39:50PM +0000, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > The formula can currently contain any event from the set::events
> > > > plus any number (int). There'll be support in future for outside
> > > > values runtime and other if needed.
> > > 
> > > Just to say that I *really* like this idea! If we extended it to include
> > > other operators then it would help us on ARM, where we often have events
> > > like 'cache accesses' and 'cache misses' but not 'cache hits'.
> > 
> > great, thanks for sharing this
> > 
> > The current operators set is just basic one to show the idea,
> > it can/will be expanded.
> 
> Makes sense.

any particular operators you'd like to see in?

jirka