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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, paulus@samba.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf events: add timehist option to record and report
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:06:06 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110218190606.GD302@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5EC01C.1030108@cisco.com>

Em Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:53:16AM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 02/18/11 11:41, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Think about tcpdump + networking tracepoints or 'perf probe' dynamic
> > events in the network stack, he wants to merge those logs and correlate
> > the tcpdump packet exchange with the tracepoints events in the network
> > stack, etc.

> I'm zoned in on ap logs, but tcpdump and network analysis is another
> very good example. packets are tagged with realtime:

> static inline void __net_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
>     skb->tstamp = ktime_get_real();
> }

I'd bet the original intent was to merge that with app specific logs :-)

Anyway, I think the way out of this is to have a clock_gettime like
interface, let the users decide what they need (or think they do),
sample it together with the other events and be done with it.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18  5:53 [PATCH 0/3] perf events: Add realtime clock event and timehist option David Ahern
2011-02-18  5:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf events: fix WARN_ON_ONCE for 64-bit raw data, SW events David Ahern
2011-02-18 11:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 14:33     ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 14:53       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 15:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 17:04           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 17:13             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 17:15               ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 17:17                 ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 14:55       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 15:28         ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 15:51           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18  5:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf events: Introduce realtime clock event David Ahern
2011-02-18 11:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 14:39     ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 14:58       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 15:35         ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 15:39         ` David Ahern
2011-02-20 12:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-18  5:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf events: add timehist option to record and report David Ahern
2011-02-18  7:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-18 14:28     ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 17:59       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-02-18 18:07         ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 18:39           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-18 18:45             ` David Ahern
2011-02-19  9:32               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-19 14:38                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 19:24           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-02-18 19:53             ` David Ahern
2011-02-21 21:13               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-02-18 18:41         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 18:47           ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 18:53           ` David Ahern
2011-02-18 19:06             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2011-02-18 19:29           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-02-18 20:30             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-21 21:17               ` Frederic Weisbecker

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