From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754233Ab1EUKda (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2011 06:33:30 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:50511 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753727Ab1EUKd0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2011 06:33:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 12:33:15 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jim Cromie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, paulus@samba.org, acme@ghostprotocols.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dont commify big numbers by default, let -B do it Message-ID: <20110521103315.GA23651@elte.hu> References: <1305968203-14240-1-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> <1305968203-14240-3-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1305968203-14240-3-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jim Cromie wrote: > Currently, big numbers get commas by default, which complicates parsing > by automation. [...] Well, automation can turn it off via --no-big-num, right? Also, i think for automation we'd also like to have a 'simple output' mode, would you like to add that? Something a bit like what you can see in 'perf stat -v true': $ perf stat -v --no-big-num true task-clock: 164545 164545 164545 context-switches: 0 164545 164545 CPU-migrations: 0 164545 164545 page-faults: 83 164545 164545 cycles: 518743 169550 169550 stalled-cycles-frontend: 326178 169550 169550 stalled-cycles-backend: 269753 169550 169550 instructions: 326864 169550 169550 branches: 67886 169550 169550 branch-misses: 3874 169550 169550 Without the human output later on, and with elapsed time added as well. Thanks, Ingo