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Frederic Weisbecker 805d127d62 perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative overhead rate
The current callchain displays the overhead rates as absolute:
relative to the total overhead.

This patch provides relative overhead percentage, in which each
branch of the callchain tree is a independant instrumentated object.

This provides a 'fractal' view of the call-chain profile: each
sub-graph looks like a profile in itself - relative to its parent.

You can produce such output by using the "fractal" mode
that you can abbreviate via f, fr, fra, frac, etc...

./perf report -s sym -c fractal

Example:

     8.46%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
                |
                |--52.01%-- generic_file_aio_read
                |          do_sync_read
                |          vfs_read
                |          |
                |          |--97.20%-- sys_pread64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          pread64
                |          |
                |           --2.81%-- sys_read
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     __read
                |
                |--39.85%-- generic_file_buffered_write
                |          __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
                |          generic_file_aio_write
                |          do_sync_write
                |          reiserfs_file_write
                |          vfs_write
                |          |
                |          |--97.05%-- sys_pwrite64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          __pwrite64
                |          |
                |           --2.95%-- sys_write
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     __write_nocancel
[...]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05 10:30:23 +02:00
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perf perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative overhead rate 2009-07-05 10:30:23 +02:00