Re: 'perf upgrade' (was: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Add support for JSON event files.)

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Apr 17 2015 - 11:32:56 EST


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:50:42PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:

SNIP

> |
> | - to blindly follow some poorly constructed vendor format with no
> | high level structure, that IMHO didn't work very well when OProfile
> | was written, and misrepresenting it as 'symbolic event names'.
> |
> | Take a look at:
> |
> | https://download.01.org/perfmon/HSW/Haswell_core_V17.json
> |
> | and weep.
>
> Evil vendor formats, but to be fair, here is what _we_ have today:
>
> perf stat -e r10068,r20036,r40060,r40ac sleep 1

hum, you could also use the 'cpu/event=.../' syntax right?
It's not symbolic name, just to be fair ;-)

jirka
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