From 16bf03793bd28d61e6dac97379ac7df1a7afce55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Baylis Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:39:52 +0000 Subject: Update README. Change-Id: Ica673264bc1573f85933da9299430ef85b4f1f81 --- README | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 6846822..3ac7232 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -33,4 +33,15 @@ Command line interface --perf [default: perf] * name of perf binary to use for analysing perf.data file +Interpreting output +=================== +Each column shows the activity on a particular CPU. Each row represents +the behaviour of the system for a slice of time while the profile data +was collected. + +If a thread is selected in the top menu, then all cells in the matrix where +that thread used CPU are highlighted. + +When the mouse pointer hovers over a cell in the matrix a profile is displayed +showing which symbols were consuming CPU time on that CPU in that time slice. -- cgit v1.2.3