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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf record: mmap output file
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:32:45 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131015143245.GB9828@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525D4B5F.4090005@gmail.com>

Em Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 08:04:15AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 10/8/13 11:59 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 2)

> > Yet another method would be to avoid the copies altogether via the splice
> > system-call - see:

> >	git grep splice kernel/trace/

> > To make splice low-overhead we'd have to introduce a mode to not mmap
> > the data part of the perf ring-buffer and splice the data straight
> > from the perf fd into a temporary pipe and over from the pipe into
> > the target file (or socket).

> I looked into splice and it was not clear it would be a good match.
> First, perf is setup to pull data from mmap's and there is not a 1:1
> association between mmap's and fd's (fd_in for splice). Second and

Jiri and PeterZ probaby will have comments here... ;-) :-)

Jiri even have patches, IIRC.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09  3:26 [PATCH 0/3] perf trace enhancements David Ahern
2013-10-09  3:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf util: Add findnew method to intlist - v2 David Ahern
2013-10-15  5:32   ` [tip:perf/core] perf util: Add findnew method to intlist tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-10-09  3:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf trace: Add summary option to dump syscall statistics David Ahern
2013-10-09 13:16   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-10-15  5:32   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-10-09  3:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf record: mmap output file David Ahern
2013-10-09  5:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 14:04     ` David Ahern
2013-10-15 14:32       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2013-10-15 14:38         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-15 15:27           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 15:29             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-15 15:30             ` David Ahern
2013-10-15 16:06               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 16:16                 ` David Ahern
2013-10-16  7:11                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 16:37                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-09  7:14   ` Mike Galbraith

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