From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, 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 v4 02/10] perf record: implement -f,--mmap-flush=<threshold> option
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:19:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec3bb670-9af9-e974-e260-8e22c7f7d116@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190228184445.GE9508@kernel.org>
On 28.02.2019 21:44, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:00:41PM +0300, Alexey Budankov escreveu:
>>
>> Implemented -f,--mmap-flush option that specifies threshold to postpone
>> and/or trigger the move of data from mmaped kernel buffers to a storage.
>> The option can be used to avoid capturing every single byte of data into
>> the stored trace. The default option value is 1.
>
> Can you add something here explain more clearly what this means, and
> also on the tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt file? Something
> like a paragraph explaining when is that there is a mmap flush normally,
> or rephrase what you wrote if you think you said that.
Will try to rephrase and may be provide some description of
cases that this option can specifically address.
Thanks,
Alexey
>
> - Arnaldo
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-28 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-28 8:35 [PATCH v4 0/10] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 8:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] feature: implement libzstd check, LIBZSTD_DIR and NO_LIBZSTD defines Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 18:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28 20:11 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-01 6:52 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:00 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] perf record: implement -f,--mmap-flush=<threshold> option Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 18:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28 20:19 ` Alexey Budankov [this message]
2019-02-28 9:02 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] perf session: define bytes_transferred and bytes_compressed metrics Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 18:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28 20:23 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:03 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] perf record: implement COMPRESSED event record and its attributes Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:08 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] perf mmap: implement dedicated memory buffer for data compression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:09 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] perf util: introduce Zstd based streaming compression API Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] perf record: implement -z,--compression_level=n option and compression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:16 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] perf report: implement record trace decompression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] perf inject: enable COMPRESSED records decompression Alexey Budankov
2019-02-28 9:18 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] perf tests: implement Zstd comp/decomp integration test Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37 ` [PATCH v4 0/10] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space Jiri Olsa
2019-03-13 15:00 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-03-13 14:37 ` Jiri Olsa
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