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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 00/25] perf tool: Add support for multiple data file storage
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:54:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522EC22E.8080805@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130909111749.GP31370@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 09/09/13 14:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 12:36:11PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> hi,
>> sending the support for multiple file storage. Initial
>> RFC is here:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137408381902423&w=2
>>
>> v2 changes:
>>   - reworked perf mmap size setup to be able to get
>>     the mmap size value easily later
>>   - added perf.data read/write test for v2 and v3
>>     for both endianity
>>   - added record '-M time' support
> 
> So this 0/n post seems to have forgotten to list the rationale for doing
> all this.. 
> 
> The only reason I wanted this is so that each thread can write its own
> data. The current one file thing is an immense bottle-neck for big
> machines.

Do you need multiple files for that?  Why not just feed writes to a pool of
threads?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-01 10:36 [PATCHv2 00/25] perf tool: Add support for multiple data file storage Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 01/25] perf tools: Check mmap pages value early Jiri Olsa
2013-10-15  5:24   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 02/25] perf tools: Add possibility to specify mmap size Jiri Olsa
2013-10-15  5:25   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 03/25] perf tools: Introduce perf_evlist__new_default function Jiri Olsa
2013-10-15  5:25   ` [tip:perf/core] perf evlist: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 04/25] perf tools: Adding throttle event data struct support Jiri Olsa
2013-10-15  5:25   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 05/25] perf tests: Add simple session read/write test Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 06/25] perf tests: Add session reading test for little endian perf data Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 07/25] perf tests: Add session reading test for big " Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 08/25] perf doc: Add perf data file documentation Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 09/25] perf tools: Introduce perf data file version CHECK macro Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 10/25] perf tools: Introduce swap_features function Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 11/25] perf tools: Introduce swap_header function Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 12/25] perf tools: Separate version 2 specific perf data header bits Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 13/25] perf tools: Using evlist as a holder for event_desc feature Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 14/25] perf tools: Introduce perf.data version 3 format Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 15/25] perf tools: Add perf data version 3 header swap Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 16/25] perf tools: Add perf data version 3 header read Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 17/25] perf tools: Add perf.data version 3 header write Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 18/25] perf tools: Get rid of post_processing_offset in record command Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 19/25] perf tools: Move synthesizing into single function Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 20/25] perf tools: Add perf_data_file__open interface to data object Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 21/25] perf tools: Separating data file properties from session Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 22/25] perf tests: Add session reading test for little endian perf data v3 Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 23/25] perf tests: Add session reading test for big " Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 24/25] perf tools: Add multi file '-M' option for record command Jiri Olsa
2013-09-02  7:52   ` Adrian Hunter
2013-09-02  8:37     ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-02  9:11       ` Adrian Hunter
2013-09-02  9:40         ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-01 10:36 ` [PATCH 25/25] perf tools: Have the process properly sythesized in subsequent data files Jiri Olsa
2013-09-02  2:42 ` [PATCHv2 00/25] perf tool: Add support for multiple data file storage Andi Kleen
2013-09-09 11:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 11:36   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-09 11:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 14:03       ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-09 14:11         ` David Ahern
2013-09-09 14:31           ` Jiri Olsa
2013-09-09 15:03             ` David Ahern
2013-09-14 18:32               ` David Ahern
2013-09-09 16:06           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-10 17:29             ` David Ahern
2013-09-10  6:54   ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2013-09-10  9:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-10  8:57   ` Namhyung Kim

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