On 10/18/2013 01:17 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Waiman Long escreveu:
When callgraph data was included in the perf data file, it may take a
long time to scan all those data and merge them together especially
if the stored callchains are long and the perf data file itself is
large, like a Gbyte or so.

The callchain stack is currently limited to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127).
This is a large value. Usually the callgraph data that developers are
most interested in are the first few levels, the rests are usually
not looked at.

This patch adds a new --max-stack option to perf-report to limit the
depth of callchain stack data to look at to reduce the time it takes
for perf-report to finish its processing. It trades the presence of
trailing stack information with faster speed.

The following table shows the elapsed time of doing perf-report on a
perf.data file of size 985,531,828 bytes.

--max_stack     Elapsed Time    Output data size
-----------     ------------    ----------------
Please prefix lines like this (------) with a space, otherwise 'git am'
will chop off everything from that line onwards. Fixing it up now.

- Arnaldo



Thank for spotting the problem, will fix that in the next version.

-Longman
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