Re: [PATCH RFC] hist lookups

Jiri Olsa
2018-11-11T19:41:38Z

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:07:21PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 08:13:03 +0100
>
> > we could separated fork/mmaps to separate dummy event map, or just
> > parse them out in the read thread and create special queue for them
> > and drop just samples in case we are behind
>
> What you say at the end here is basically what I am proposing.
>
> Perf dequeues events from mmap ring as fast as possible.
>
> Perf has two internal queues, high priority and low priority.
>
> High priority events are never dropped.
>
> Low priority events are dropped on overload, oldest first.

I added the dropping logic, it's simple so far..

the processing thread will drop (not process) samples
which gets behind the latest event time more then
the 'refresh rate' seconds

adding separate queues for samples and other events is
possible, but it looks like the above simple solution
could be ok for now

thanks,
jirka