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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 06/11] perf record: Add an option to force per-cpu mmaps
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:06:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111120655.GC21291@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131108084001.GG19203@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:31:52PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > PeterZ,
> > 
> > 	Can I have your Acked-by for this one? I guess now the goal is
> > achieved, no?
> 
> So this option allows -t/-p/-u to create one buffer per cpu and attach
> all the various thread/process/user tasks' their counters to that one
> buffer?
> 
> As opposed to the current state where each such counter would have its
> own buffer.
> 
> If this is what the patch does, then yes, although I would prefer a
> slightly clearer Changelog.
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Is there any reason why we wouldn't want to make this the default 
behavior?

That way we could also lose the somewhat suboptimal 'force' naming: 
there's nothing forced really, we simply switch to another ring-buffer 
setup ...

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-01 13:51 [PATCH V3 00/11] perf tools: fixes and tweaks Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 01/11] perf evsel: Add a debug print if perf_event_open fails Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:20   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 02/11] perf script: Set up output options for in-stream attributes Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:20   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 03/11] perf tools: Fix 32-bit cross build Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:20   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 04/11] perf tools: Fix libunwind build and feature detection for 32-bit build Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:20   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 05/11] perf evlist: Add a debug print if event buffer mmap fails Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:20   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 06/11] perf record: Add an option to force per-cpu mmaps Adrian Hunter
     [not found]   ` <20131104152942.GA4004@krava.brq.redhat.com>
2013-11-05  8:28     ` Adrian Hunter
2013-11-05  9:42       ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-05 13:09         ` Adrian Hunter
2013-11-05 13:30           ` Jiri Olsa
2013-11-05 14:25             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-11-05 17:31               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-11-08  7:57                 ` Adrian Hunter
2013-11-08  8:40                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-08 14:13                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-11-11 12:06                   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-11-13  2:48                     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2013-11-15  7:25   ` [tip:perf/urgent] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 07/11] perf evsel: Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit() Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:21   ` [tip:perf/core] perf evsel: Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit () tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 08/11] perf evsel: Add missing overflow check Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:21   ` [tip:perf/core] perf evsel: Add missing overflow check for TRANSACTION tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 09/11] perf test: Update "sample parsing" test for PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:21   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 10/11] perf evsel: Add missing PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION Adrian Hunter
2013-11-04 20:21   ` [tip:perf/core] perf evsel: Synthesize PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-01 13:51 ` [PATCH V3 11/11] perf tools: Allow non-matching sample types Adrian Hunter

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