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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/3]: perf: reduce data loss when profiling highly parallel CPU bound workloads
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:08:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910100841.GB15548@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180910100303.GA101776@gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:03:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Per-CPU threading the record session would have so many other advantages as well (scalability, 
> > > etc.).
> > > 
> > > Jiri did per-CPU recording patches a couple of months ago, not sure how usable they are at the 
> > > moment?
> > 
> > it's still usable, I can rebase it and post a branch pointer,
> > the problem is I haven't been able to find a case with a real
> > performance benefit yet.. ;-)
> > 
> > perhaps because I haven't tried on server with really big cpu
> > numbers
> 
> Maybe Alexey could pick up from there? Your concept looked fairly mature to me
> and I tried it on a big-CPU box back then and there were real improvements.

too bad u did not share your results, it could have been already in ;-)

let me rebase/repost once more and let's see

I think we could benefit from both multiple threads event reading
and AIO writing for perf.data.. it could be merged together

jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-07  7:07 [PATCH v8 0/3]: perf: reduce data loss when profiling highly parallel CPU bound workloads Alexey Budankov
2018-09-07  7:11 ` [PATCH v8 1/3]: perf util: map data buffer for preserving collected data Alexey Budankov
2018-09-07  7:19 ` [PATCH v8 2/3]: perf record: enable asynchronous trace writing Alexey Budankov
2018-09-07  7:39 ` [PATCH v8 3/3]: perf record: extend trace writing to multi AIO Alexey Budankov
2018-09-07  9:34 ` [PATCH v8 0/3]: perf: reduce data loss when profiling highly parallel CPU bound workloads Alexey Budankov
2018-09-10  9:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-09-10  9:59   ` Jiri Olsa
2018-09-10 10:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-09-10 10:08       ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2018-09-10 10:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-09-10 10:23           ` Jiri Olsa
2018-09-10 10:45             ` Alexey Budankov
2018-09-10 10:40   ` Alexey Budankov
2018-09-10 12:06     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-09-10 13:58       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-09-10 15:19         ` Alexey Budankov
2018-09-10 14:48       ` Alexey Budankov
2018-09-11  6:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-09-11  8:16           ` Alexey Budankov
2018-09-11  8:34             ` Jiri Olsa
2018-09-11 13:42               ` Alexey Budankov
2018-09-13  8:00                 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-09-11 14:19           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-12  8:27             ` Alexey Budankov

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