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From: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Chandramouleeswaran,
	Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>, "Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: fix symbol processing bug and greatly improve performance
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 10:52:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5189152C.4010703@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51890D71.9080600@hp.com>

On 05/07/2013 10:19 AM, Waiman Long wrote:
> The slowdown that I was trying to fix was in the "perf record" part of 
> the profiling process, not the "perf report" part. I didn't try 
> perf-record on perf-record as the performance counters are limited 
> resources and I don't want resource conflicts to affect the results. 
> As the slow-down was entirely in the user space, I decided to use 
> gprof to do the profiling.

Just to clarify that the post-processing time that I referred to in the 
patch is the time spent after the workload finishes in the perf-record 
session and the perf command itself quits. I could take a really long 
time for perf to quit without the patch.

Regards,
Longman


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-06 13:43 [PATCH] perf: fix symbol processing bug and greatly improve performance Waiman Long
2013-05-07  7:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-07 14:19   ` Waiman Long
2013-05-07 14:52     ` Waiman Long [this message]
2013-05-07 17:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-07  9:30 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-05-07 14:40   ` Waiman Long
2013-05-08 15:44   ` Waiman Long
2013-05-09 10:19     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-05-09 12:52       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-09 14:46       ` Waiman Long
2013-05-09 15:05         ` David Ahern
2013-05-09 15:31           ` Waiman Long

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