The --percentage option is for controlling overhead percentage
displayed. It can only receive either of "relative" or "absolute".
"relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
the original value before and after the filter is applied.
$ perf report -s comm
# Overhead Command
# ........ ............
#
74.19% cc1
7.61% gcc
6.11% as
4.35% sh
4.14% make
1.13% fixdep
...
$ perf report -s comm -c cc1,gcc --percentage absolute
# Overhead Command
# ........ ............
#
74.19% cc1
7.61% gcc
$ perf report -s comm -c cc1,gcc --percentage relative
# Overhead Command
# ........ ............
#
90.69% cc1
9.31% gcc
Note that it has zero effect if no filter was applied.
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397145720-8063-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>