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>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/13] tools/libperf: avoid moving of fds at fdarray__filter() call
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200629191700.GC3031756@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2a868bb-b434-7814-d577-944efc5369aa@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:11:52PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
SNIP
> >>
> >> I'm confused, are you talking about file descriptors limit now?
> >> this wont be affected by epoll change.. what do I miss?
> >
> > Currently there is already uname -n limit on the amount of open file descriptors
> > and Perf tool process is affected by that limit.
> >
> > Moving to epoll() will impose one more max_user_watches limit and that can additionally
> > confine Perf applicability even though default value on some machines currently
> > is high enough.
>
> Prior making v9 I would prefer to agree on some design to be implemented in order to
> avoid guessing and redundant reiterating.
>
> Options that I see as good balanced ones are 1) or 5), + non screwing of fds to fix
> staleness of pos(=fdarray__add()).
>
> Are there any thoughts so far?
let's try it and discuss over the code
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-29 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-17 8:30 [PATCH v8 00/13] perf: support enable and disable commands in stat and record modes Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:35 ` [PATCH v8 01/13] tools/libperf: avoid moving of fds at fdarray__filter() call Alexey Budankov
2020-06-24 17:19 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-25 17:14 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-25 19:32 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-26 9:37 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-26 10:06 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-29 15:11 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-29 19:17 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2020-06-17 8:35 ` [PATCH v8 02/13] perf evlist: introduce control file descriptors Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:36 ` [PATCH v8 03/13] perf evlist: implement control command handling functions Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-23 15:03 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-06-23 15:14 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 13:35 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 13:20 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:37 ` [PATCH v8 04/13] perf stat: factor out body of event handling loop for system wide Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 14:27 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-25 12:17 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-25 16:01 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-25 17:13 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-25 18:43 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:38 ` [PATCH v8 05/13] perf stat: move target check to loop control statement Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:39 ` [PATCH v8 06/13] perf stat: factor out body of event handling loop for fork case Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:40 ` [PATCH v8 07/13] perf stat: factor out event handling loop into dispatch_events() Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 13:27 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:40 ` [PATCH v8 08/13] perf stat: extend -D,--delay option with -1 value Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:41 ` [PATCH v8 09/13] perf stat: implement control commands handling Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 14:10 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-25 12:14 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-25 14:58 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 13:39 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-25 12:12 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-25 14:52 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 10/13] perf stat: introduce --control fd:ctl-fd[,ack-fd] options Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 11/13] perf record: extend -D,--delay option with -1 value Alexey Budankov
2020-06-17 8:43 ` [PATCH v8 12/13] perf record: implement control commands handling Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 14:00 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-24 14:55 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-25 17:07 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-17 8:44 ` [PATCH v8 13/13] perf record: introduce --control fd:ctl-fd[,ack-fd] options Alexey Budankov
2020-06-22 3:38 ` [PATCH v8 00/13] perf: support enable and disable commands in stat and record modes Alexey Budankov
2020-06-22 8:55 ` Jiri Olsa
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