Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Add reference timestamp to perf header

["David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>]

On 12/13/10 11:06, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:01 -0700, David S. Ahern wrote:
>>> Another problem with this approach is things like flight-recorder mode
>>> where you constantly over-write your old data, you'd have to build some
>>> trigger to always output a new record before you over-write the old one,
>>> so there's always one consistent record around. Drift is an even more
>>> serious problem here since flight-record more could be running for days
>>> before (if ever) you dump it.
>>
>> Ok. I was not aware flight-recorder mode was an option today.
> 
> You get it when you mmap the fd RO -- the only thing is you don't get a
> consistent tail pointer so you have to fudge a bit.

Awesome. Flight recorder mode is on our wish list. I'll try it out when
I get some time.

David

> 
> But even if we didn't have it, we'd need a solution that would work once
> we did grow it ;-)