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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/2] perf report: Implement visual marker for macro fusion in annotate
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> I applied this one, no unnecessary parsing of cpuid done at each
> jump->target arrow rendering, much better, thanks!
>
> One thing for a follow up patch:
>
> We have this when the cursor is at a jump instruction:
>
> │ ┌──test %ecx,%ecx
> -> │ ├──je 714cf
> │ │ mov LINES+0xb40,%edx
> │ │ test %edx,%edx
> │ │↓ je 71580
> │714cf:└─→mov LINES+0x10c8,%eax
>
> But if we go up a line, to that "test" instruction, we get:
>
> -> │ test %ecx,%ecx
> │ ↓ je 714cf
> │ mov LINES+0xb40,%edx
> │ test %edx,%edx
> │ ↓ je 71580
> │714cf: mov LINES+0x10c8,%eax
>
> I suggest that this be changed to:
>
> -> │ ┌─test %ecx,%ecx
> │ ↓ je 714cf
> │ mov LINES+0xb40,%edx
> │ test %edx,%edx
> │ ↓ je 71580
> │714cf: mov LINES+0x10c8,%eax
>
> I.e. even before going to the jump instruction line with the cursor, we
> would see the fused instructions.
>
> To do that perhaps we should improve annotate_browser__draw_current_jump
> to improve that part that looks for is_valid_jump() to consider
> instructions that could be fused with jumps for the machine where the
> perf data came from, etc.
>
> But the current situation is better already, thanks for your work,
> applied!
>
> - Arnaldo

I will investigate how to do the follow-up patch.

Thanks
Jin Yao

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