From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:57:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535E6C6D.7080901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398690994.1724.13.camel@leonhard>
On 4/28/14, 7:16 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 2014-04-28 (월), 12:01 +0200, Jiri Olsa:
>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:36:35PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>> 2014-04-17 (목), 19:39 +0200, Jiri Olsa:
>>>> Keeping the data file description open for the whole life
>>>> of the dso object.
>>>
>>> I suspect there might be an issue for reporting very large data file
>>> with this approach - like open file limit?
>>
>> I've got as high as ~200 openned file descriptors for
>> ~2GB data of system wide monitoring
>>
>> but right that could be an issue.. I wonder we could
>> workaround this somehow, because the speed up is quite
>> noticable
>>
>> how about we monitor number of openned dso file descriptor
>> and once we cross this we close some portion of them
>>
>> or something along those lines ;-)
>
> Yeah, we'll need some way to control those eventually.
Handle EMFILE failures. Find an "old" one and close it to let the new
one succeed.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-17 17:39 [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Speedup DWARF unwind Jiri Olsa
2014-04-17 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Cache register accesses for unwind processing Jiri Olsa
2014-04-27 14:29 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 9:48 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 13:02 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 13:24 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-29 0:36 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-30 12:12 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 10:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-04-28 11:00 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-17 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor Jiri Olsa
2014-04-27 14:36 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 10:01 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 13:16 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-28 13:34 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-28 14:57 ` David Ahern [this message]
2014-04-29 0:41 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-05-07 19:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-17 17:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf tools: Replace dso data cache with mapped data Jiri Olsa
2014-04-18 7:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Speedup DWARF unwind Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18 9:35 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-23 20:16 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-25 13:08 ` Jiri Olsa
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