> > Timestamp are useful to order samples during reporting. > How do you do with it if you monitor multi-threaded (multi-cpu) > workloads. This is only good for single thread or single CPU > measurements. Or am I missing something?
For a perf report order doesn't matter (except against mmaps) The CPUs are still separated of course You're right for some special analysis it matters, that is why it is only an option. But for the standard "only care about perf report and don't care about about program startup" case it's a nice saving. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

