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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net,
	eranian@gmail.com, robert.richter@amd.com,
	"markus.t.metzger" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_events: improve DS/BTS/PEBS buffer allocation
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:34:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284406463.2275.423.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100913193120.GA28294@Krystal>

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 15:31 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > Ok, so can we play the same trick you're playing with the sampling
> > buffer, i.e., you use alloc_pages_node() for one page at a time, and
> > then you stitch them on demand via SW?
> 
> Well, a thought is striking me: it sounds like you are re-doing YAORB (short
> for Yet Another Ring Buffer, 

He's not.. the hardware needs a large (virtually) contiguous region to
poke data into, we need to read it out from NMI context.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13 14:55 [PATCH] perf_events: improve DS/BTS/PEBS buffer allocation Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 15:21   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 15:09 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-09-13 15:13   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 15:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 15:20       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 15:24         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 15:31           ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 15:41             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 15:51               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-09-13 15:55               ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 17:35                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 18:40                   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 18:42                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 18:49                       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 18:57                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 19:12                           ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 19:31                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-09-13 19:34                       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-09-13 19:35                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 19:42                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-09-13 17:24               ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 17:36                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 19:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-13 20:51     ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 20:57       ` [perfmon2] " Luck, Tony
2010-09-13 20:34   ` H. Peter Anvin

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