Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] perf, persistent: Add persistent events

Borislav Petkov
2014-05-08T18:36:38Z

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:01:55PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> For general-purpose... Why 512k buffers are ok? Depending on the
> event, smaller buffers are maybe good enough, esp. since they are
> permanently enabled and use system resources. Or, at some point, 512k
> is not sufficient anymore. You don't want 512k be carved in stone.

Well, if it turns out that 512K is not enough, it will be changed in
perf itself, right?

And we still don't care because no matter the size, the persistent
buffers overwrite themselves on fill up. If they'd stopped, they're not
really persistent, right?

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