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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/12] perf report: implement record trace decompression
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:01:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190314090128.GA4406@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fee1ca34-eaa4-75c4-60bb-72a7b18fdd1a@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 06:55:29PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> 
> On 13.03.2019 17:37, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:36:18AM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> > 
> > SBIP
> > 
> >> +#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
> >> +static int perf_session__process_compressed_event(struct perf_session *session,
> >> +					union perf_event *event, u64 file_offset)
> >> +{
> >> +	void *src;
> >> +	size_t decomp_size, src_size;
> >> +	u64 decomp_last_rem = 0;
> >> +	size_t decomp_len = session->header.env.comp_mmap_len;
> >> +	struct decomp *decomp, *decomp_last = session->decomp_last;
> >> +
> >> +	decomp = mmap(NULL, sizeof(struct decomp) + decomp_len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> >> +		      MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
> >> +	if (decomp == MAP_FAILED) {
> >> +		pr_err("Couldn't allocate memory for decompression\n");
> >> +		return -1;
> >> +	}
> > 
> > ok, I see the need to keep this decomp around, we need the event
> > to be there the whole time, like the mmap for the standard events
> > 
> > we know the total uncompressed size when record is done, right?
> > could we save it in the COMPRESSED feature and alloc all the
> > needed uncompressed data in single mmap?
> 
> It can be not that good idea. The required contiguous memory 
> region can be really huge to be allocated. Plain malloc()'s are 
> also not good. I was observing OOM in perf report process when 
> loading traces of several GiBs. So smaller, page size granularity,
> linked memory regions performed the best in my experiments.

ok

jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-14  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-12  4:57 [PATCH v7 00/12] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:03 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] feature: implement libzstd check, LIBZSTD_DIR and NO_LIBZSTD defines Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:12 ` [PATCH v7 02/12] perf record: implement -f,--mmap-flush=<threshold> option Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:36   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-13 15:00     ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:15 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] perf session: define bytes_transferred and bytes_compressed metrics Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:17 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] perf record: implement COMPRESSED event record and its attributes Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:20 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] perf mmap: implement dedicated memory buffer for data compression Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:23 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] perf util: introduce Zstd based streaming compression API Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-13 15:06     ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:25 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] perf record: implement compression for serial trace streaming Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:30 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] perf record: implement compression for AIO " Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:36   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-13 15:33     ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-12  5:32 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] perf record: implement -z,--compression_level=n option Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:36 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] perf report: implement record trace decompression Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-13 15:55     ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-14  9:01       ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2019-03-12  5:37 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] perf inject: enable COMPRESSED records decompression Alexey Budankov
2019-03-12  5:38 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] perf tests: implement Zstd comp/decomp integration test Alexey Budankov

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