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Subject: Re: Q: perf log mode?
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:53:41 +0100
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On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 15:42 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:08:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:06 +0300, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> > > I'm trying to use perf together with e.g. kprobes as a tool to show what
> > > is happening with my system in "live-log" mode. The problem is, for
> > > seldom events, actual info output is largely delayed because perf reads
> > > sample data in whole pages. Could something be done with it or am I'm
> > > missing something? Here is detailed description: 
> > 
> > perf_event_attr = {
> > 	.watermark = 0,
> > 	.wakeup_events = 1,
> > };
> 
> 
> Which is perhaps something we want as a default when perf record -c 1
> and the output is the pipe mode.

No, definitely not, esp for -c1 you want large buffers because the event
can come at very high freq.

Nor does pipe mode have anything to do with it, the whole script set-up
plain stinks and should not be using pipe mode, pipe mode should only be
used to pipe data over the network and other remote profiling like
things.