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SubjectRe: [RFC/Requirements/Design] h/w error reporting
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On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 19:24 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 13:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > Peter said at LPC that the perf buffering system was not designed to
> > handle high speed tracing. But he also said he does not like the way the
> > ftrace buffering works.
>
> You're not very good at listening,

Or I'm not good at rephrasing, but both are probably true ;-)


> I said the perf infrastructure and
> event handling mechanism isn't geared towards full throughput but
> instead on sampling.

OK, not the buffering, but the infrastructure. That's not much of a
difference to this topic. Which is about the ABI which includes all from
the user to the buffer.

>
> There is lots of code between getting the event and landing it in the
> buffer. The buffer itself is perfectly suited for high speed low
> overhead stuffs, the perf data format possibly not because its not
> bitfield happy.

Well, we need to separate out the buffer in perf regardless, since it is
very entwined in the code. Does it now support flight recorder mode?

-- Steve




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