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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 00/14] perf record: Add support to store data in directory
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 12:41:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204114144.GC18141@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bf24b7d-2bd3-8091-cf49-363c91e4e864@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:29:56PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> On 04.02.2019 13:36, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:12:11PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 03.02.2019 18:30, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >>> hi,
> >>> this patchset adds the --dir option to record command (and all
> >>> the other record command that overload cmd_record) that allows
> >>> the data to be stored in directory with multiple data files.
> >>>
> >>> It's next step for multiple threads implementation in record.
> >>> It's now possible to make directory data via --dir option, like:
> >>>
> >>>   $ perf record --dir perf bench sched messaging
> >>
> >> Is it possible to name data directory differently from perf.data 
> >> e.g. using --output option, like this?
> >>
> >>   $ perf record --output result_1 --dir perf bench sched messaging
> > 
> > 
> > yep, it's taken into account:
> > 
> > [jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf record --output result_1 --dir ./perf bench sched messaging
> > Couldn't synthesize bpf events.
> > # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
> > # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
> > # 10 groups == 400 processes run
> > 
> >      Total time: 0.177 [sec]
> > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.316 MB result_1 (7225 samples) ]
> > 
> > [jolsa@krava perf]$ ll result_1/
> > total 348
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 27624 Feb  4 11:35 data.0
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 56672 Feb  4 11:35 data.1
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 30824 Feb  4 11:35 data.2
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 49136 Feb  4 11:35 data.3
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 22712 Feb  4 11:35 data.4
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 53392 Feb  4 11:35 data.5
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 43352 Feb  4 11:35 data.6
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 46688 Feb  4 11:35 data.7
> > -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa  9068 Feb  4 11:35 header
> 
> Awesome. What do you think about having it like this:
> 
>   $ perf record --output result_1.data ... - writes data to a file
> 
>   $ perf record --dir result_1 ... - or even
>   $ perf record --output_dir result_1 ... - writes data into a directory
> 
> IMHO, this interface is simpler for a user.

yep, seems more convenient.. I'll add it

thanks,
jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-03 15:30 [RFC/PATCH 00/14] perf record: Add support to store data in directory Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 01/14] perf tools: Make rm_rf to remove single file Jiri Olsa
2019-02-05 11:33   ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-05 13:38     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 02/14] perf session: Add process callback to reader object Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 03/14] perf data: Move size to struct perf_data_file Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 04/14] perf data: Add global path holder Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 05/14] perf data: Make check_backup work over directories Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 06/14] perf data: Add perf_data__(create_dir|free_dir) functions Jiri Olsa
2019-02-05 11:52   ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-05 13:42     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-05 13:46   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-05 13:53     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 07/14] perf data: Add perf_data__open_dir_data function Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 08/14] perf data: Add directory support Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 09/14] perf data: Don't store auxtrace index for directory data file Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 10/14] perf data: Add perf_data__update_dir function Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 11/14] perf data: Make perf_data__size to work over directory Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 12/14] perf session: Add __perf_session__process_dir_events function Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 13/14] perf session: Add path to reader object Jiri Olsa
2019-02-03 15:30 ` [PATCH 14/14] perf record: Add --dir option to store data in directory Jiri Olsa
2019-02-05 12:36   ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-05 13:51     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-04 10:12 ` [RFC/PATCH 00/14] perf record: Add support " Alexey Budankov
2019-02-04 10:36   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-04 11:29     ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-04 11:41       ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2019-02-04 18:56         ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-04 19:27           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-04 19:56             ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-04 20:05             ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-04 20:28               ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-04 22:44                 ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-05 13:37                   ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-11 10:19                     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-11 18:34                       ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-11 18:53                         ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-11 19:32                           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-11 20:18                             ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-11 20:43                               ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-14 11:34                                 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-14 12:57                                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-14 13:26                                     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-14 13:59                                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-14 21:30                                         ` Stephane Eranian
     [not found]                                           ` <CA+JHD90ssKi3CJ7yfCFTkrS8xwUsZhvd0t7cSCy1MF7TJ2XLYw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-02-14 21:39                                             ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-11 18:55                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-11 19:30                           ` Stephane Eranian
2019-02-11 20:30                             ` Song Liu

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