Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2014 20:36:29 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] perf, persistent: Add persistent events |
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On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:01:55PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > For general-purpose... Why 512k buffers are ok? Depending on the > event, smaller buffers are maybe good enough, esp. since they are > permanently enabled and use system resources. Or, at some point, 512k > is not sufficient anymore. You don't want 512k be carved in stone.
Well, if it turns out that 512K is not enough, it will be changed in perf itself, right?
And we still don't care because no matter the size, the persistent buffers overwrite themselves on fill up. If they'd stopped, they're not really persistent, right?
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