Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-branch-tracer: enhancements for the trace output

["Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

2008/11/27 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:
> We can still add the overhead signs.
>
> We still have a single space in the first column before the CPU number
> (that looks better when these traces are pasted into email, which is
> one of the most common uses of them), and we can add the sign there.
>
> I.e. something like this:
>
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> > CPU)     cost   |  function
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >  0)             |  sys_read() {
>> >  0)    0.331 us |    fget_light();
>> >  0)             |    vfs_read() {
>> >  0)             |      rw_verify_area() {
>> >  0)             |        security_file_permission() {
>> >  0)    0.306 us |          cap_file_permission();
>> >  0)    0.300 us |          cap_file_permission();
>> >  0)    8.909 us |        }
>> >  0)    0.993 us |      }
>> > +0)   11.649 us |    }
>> >  0)             |    do_sync_read() {
>> >  0)             |      sock_aio_read() {
>> >  0)             |        __sock_recvmsg() {
>> >  0)             |          security_socket_recvmsg() {
>> > !0)  100.319 us |            cap_socket_recvmsg();
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Or we could add them to the function name bit - there we have two free
> space characters anyway:
>
> Something like this:
>
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> > CPU)     cost   |  function
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >  0)             |  sys_read() {
>> >  0)    0.331 us |    fget_light();
>> >  0)             |    vfs_read() {
>> >  0)             |      rw_verify_area() {
>> >  0)             |        security_file_permission() {
>> >  0)    0.306 us |          cap_file_permission();
>> >  0)    0.300 us |          cap_file_permission();
>> >  0)    8.909 us |        }
>> >  0)    0.993 us |      }
>> >  0)   11.649 us |+   }
>> >  0)             |    do_sync_read() {
>> >  0)             |      sock_aio_read() {
>> >  0)             |        __sock_recvmsg() {
>> >  0)             |          security_socket_recvmsg() {
>> >  0)  100.319 us |!           cap_socket_recvmsg();
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hm?

I like it before the CPU number. The main purpose would be to scroll
quickly the file and find the overheads. That would be easy if set as
a first character.

I will set it as a default disabled option.



>
>> I don't know, perhaps that will actually be better in practice...
>
> i think it will be better. I'm biased, so i gave the output to two
> people with good visual taste (one of them female), [note, i gave them
> the mockup from the previous mail] and the first question of both of
> them was: "why arent the times on the left?".

Really?
Actually yes, I'm certainly biased too.

> I think we could make the time column a trace_option as well -
> default-enabled.

Ok, I will apply it.