Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:16:26 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: KVM usability |
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On 03/07/2010 05:14 PM, Luca Barbieri wrote: >> perf really is wonderful, but to be really competitive, and usable to more >> developers, it needs to be in a graphical environment. I want 'perf report' >> output to start out collapsed and drill down by clicking on a tree widget. >> Clicking on a function name opens its definition. 'perf annotate' should >> display annotations on my editor window, not in a pager. I should be able >> to check events on a list, not using 'perf list'. >> >> Is something like that suitable for tools/perf/? I think you'll find the >> intersection of kernel developers and GUI developers to be fairly small. >> > The latest versions of Gnome Sysprof use perf and provide a GTK+ tree > interface for the profiling output. > > However, they are not configurable at all and don't support anything > but call graph profiling, unless they added more features very > recently. > It would be nice to extend sysprof into a more capable tool, and one > that can read perf output files and do so when launched from the > command line. >
Looks like a step in the right direction. I don't think this belong in tools/, though.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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