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

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:51:13PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

Right. We need to go there in the end anyway.
I had an old experiment of this some month ago:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
	perf/percpu

There is one writer per cpu and a (stupid) multiplexing at report time.
It was working. Just the sorting on report time was (stupidly) slow.

I should perhaps rebase that branch and try to make something with it.