From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 03/11] perf: Allow for multiple ring buffers per event
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:36:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140218023659.GV12219@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140217143340.GR27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
> I'm not convinced it needs to be a PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE; but some
> PERF_RECORD_* type for sure.
Adding a header shouldn't be a problem, it's merely wasting 4K.
> Also it must allow interleaving with other > events.
But can you describe a concrete use case where interleaving is better?
I'm not aware of any. Anything that could be usefully interleaved
can just be in the side band stream, and if you want a unified uncompressed
stream you just run perf inject. The standard tools don't care for
it as they have to reorder everything anyways to deal with multi
CPU reordering.
Your scheme is very complex and adds a lot of use restrictions
over the current code, so there should be a good reason for it
at least.
Especially the TLB hac^wproposal sounds horrible to me, compared
to the straight forward zero copy ring buffer used today.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-18 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-06 10:50 [PATCH v1 00/11] perf: Add support for Intel Processor Trace Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 01/11] x86: Add Intel Processor Trace (INTEL_PT) cpu feature detection Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 02/11] perf: Abstract ring_buffer backing store operations Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 03/11] perf: Allow for multiple ring buffers per event Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-17 14:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-18 2:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-03-14 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-14 14:10 ` Andi Kleen
2014-03-18 14:06 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-19 22:02 ` Dave Hansen
2014-03-10 9:59 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-03-10 17:24 ` Andi Kleen
2014-03-14 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-14 14:13 ` Andi Kleen
2014-03-14 10:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-07 15:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-07 19:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-05-07 21:08 ` Andi Kleen
2014-05-07 21:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-08 3:26 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-05-08 4:05 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-05-08 9:08 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-05-08 12:34 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-05-08 12:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-08 12:46 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-05-08 14:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 04/11] itrace: Infrastructure for instruction flow tracing units Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 05/11] itrace: Add functionality to include traces in perf event samples Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 06/11] itrace: Add functionality to include traces in process core dumps Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 07/11] x86: perf: intel_pt: Intel PT PMU driver Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 20:29 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-17 14:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-17 16:07 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-17 14:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-18 12:42 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 08/11] x86: perf: intel_pt: Add sampling functionality Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 09/11] x86: perf: intel_pt: Add core dump functionality Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 20:36 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-07 9:03 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 23:59 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-07 9:09 ` Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 10/11] x86: perf: intel_bts: Add BTS PMU driver Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 10:50 ` [PATCH v1 11/11] x86: perf: intel_bts: Add core dump related functionality Alexander Shishkin
2014-02-06 23:57 ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-07 9:02 ` Alexander Shishkin
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