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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 21:01:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140507190111.GA21160@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140428100133.GE1109@krava.brq.redhat.com>


* Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:36:35PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > 2014-04-17 (목), 19:39 +0200, Jiri Olsa:
> > > Keeping the data file description open for the whole life
> > > of the dso object.
> > 
> > I suspect there might be an issue for reporting very large data file
> > with this approach - like open file limit?
> 
> I've got as high as ~200 openned file descriptors for
> ~2GB data of system wide monitoring

Note that 200 open file descriptors in themselves are not a 
scalability problem on Linux, as long as perf doesn't walk them 
linearly anywhere.

I think we are reasonably fast even with a million open files in a 
singe process, or so.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-07 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17 17:39 [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Speedup DWARF unwind Jiri Olsa
2014-04-17 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Cache register accesses for unwind processing Jiri Olsa
2014-04-27 14:29   ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28  9:48     ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 13:02       ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 13:24         ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-29  0:36           ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-30 12:12             ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 10:39   ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-04-28 11:00     ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-17 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor Jiri Olsa
2014-04-27 14:36   ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 10:01     ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 13:16       ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 13:34         ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 14:57         ` David Ahern
2014-04-29  0:41           ` Namhyung Kim
2014-05-07 19:01       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2014-04-17 17:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf tools: Replace dso data cache with mapped data Jiri Olsa
2014-04-18  7:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Speedup DWARF unwind Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18  7:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18  9:35     ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-23 20:16 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-25 13:08 ` Jiri Olsa

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