[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/6] perf: add ability to record event period

[David Ahern]

On 12/19/2011 01:58 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> I get that Arun is in agreement, everything seems OK, but we need to do
> a better job on describing why we add code, the context we have now from
> all these discussions will be mostly lost, say, 5 years from now when we
> try to figure out why something was done in some way,

It seems like an option is needed for all the sample attributes.
Timestamp is now covered (-T). Sample address is covered (-d). Callchain
(-g). This targets period (-P). I think that just leaves CPU, and we are
out of c/C options. ;-)

David