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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo' <acme@kernel.org>,
	Sohaib Mohamed <sohaib.amhmd@gmail.com>
Cc: "irogers@google.com" <irogers@google.com>,
	Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	"Namhyung Kim" <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	"Fabian Hemmer" <copy@copy.sh>,
	"linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Unbuffered output when pipe/tee to a file
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 17:10:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8edd3fd7b40745b6bf96cbb6438fcc65@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YbJQAp6/gz4kHdi8@kernel.org>

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> Sent: 09 December 2021 18:51
...
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
> > index 8cb5a1c3489e..d92ae4efd2e6 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
> > @@ -606,6 +606,9 @@ int cmd_test(int argc, const char **argv)
> >          if (ret < 0)
> >                  return ret;
> >
> > +	/* Unbuffered output */
> > +	setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
> > +

You only want _IOLBF (line buffered).

Otherwise you are likely to get a lot of write() system calls.
Even multiple ones from the same printf().

Although it can be better just to ensure there is a fflush(stdout)
inside the loop.

	David

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-11 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-19  6:14 [PATCH v2] Unbuffered output when pipe/tee to a file Sohaib Mohamed
2021-11-28 15:34 ` Jiri Olsa
2021-12-09 18:51   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2021-12-09 19:30     ` Jiri Olsa
2021-12-09 18:50 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2021-12-11 17:10   ` David Laight [this message]

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