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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Add reference timestamp to perf header
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:51:13 +0100
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On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:43 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Whatever, never introduced one, they are inserted, IIRC, in the
> beggining of the stream, so I guess we can just do that sed and call
> them headers and be done with it. 

There's the flush thing from Frederic, that's all over the place.

The easiest way to kill that is to go to separate data files now.
writing to different files is better for contention anyway, we can grow
a flusher-thread per buffer and let them write to their own file.