Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol

["Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>]

On 11/28/2018 2:33 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:09:48PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>> Support displaying the average IPC and IPC coverage for symbol
>> in perf report TUI browser. We create a new sort-key 'ipc' for
>> that.
> 
> Another thing that would be nice would be to automatically enable
> these columns perf report when -b was enabled in the perf.data.
> We can't check for timed LBR being supported without
> looking into samples, but at least can check for -b.
> 
> Otherwise a lot of people won't realize it's supported.
> 
> It would show always 0.0 when timed LBR is not supported,
> but that might be ok. Perhaps make both columns empty
> in this case instead of 0.0.
> 
> 
> -Andi
> 

Hi Andi,

Yes, I agree, people will not realize a new option 'ipc' is created.

So I will enable 2 columns ("IPC" and "IPC columns") even when timed LBR 
is not supported. Just show empty or '-' in these columns.

Thanks
Jin Yao