From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757873Ab3JKNE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:04:58 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:37548 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754531Ab3JKNE4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:04:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:04:41 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Paul Mackerras , Namhyung Kim , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/8] perf tools: Fix scalability problem on callchain merging (v5) Message-ID: <20131011130441.GC28601@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1381468543-25334-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <20131011055829.GA4975@gmail.com> <20131011073448.GA11064@krava.redhat.com> <8761t4cizo.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> <20131011125935.GA10634@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131011125935.GA10634@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 02:59:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > So, why not keep -g as a shortcut to whatever default call-graph profiling > we want to provide (note, this does not mean it always has to be 'fp'), > and use --call-graph for more specific variants? > > a .perfconfig value could even set the default for '-g', so that you don't > have to type '--call-graph dwarf' all the time. Another, slightly related annoyance I have is with -B, we default to --big-num so -B is utterly useless, and the only remaining option is --no-big-num.